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What in the World: South Koreans, Seeking New Zest for Life, Experience Their Own Funerals

Participants of the mock funeral program write a testament, don a shroud, and climb in a coffin, which is then hammered shut for 10 long minutes. [Source]

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Origin: nytimes.com

Category: South Korea

Topics: minutes, hammered, which, coffin, climb, shroud, testament, write, program, funeral, Participants, Funerals, Their, Experience, Seeking, Koreans, South, World

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/27/world/what-in-the-world/korea-mock-funeral-coffin.html?partner=rss&emc=rss