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Mock Funerals Are Now A Thing
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December 27, 2015
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6:28Now PlayingThere is growing trend in South Korea where people stage mock funerals for themselves. During their time lying in a coffin they are to reflect on their lives and decide if they should make changes. Ana Kasparian (The Point) and Karamo Brown hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
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"In a dimly lit room, people dressed in white burial shrouds slowly sit up inside the wooden coffins where they had been lying, enclosed, for 10 minutes. Blinking, pale and solemn, they say they thought about their past and their loved ones while inside the coffins and vow to live better lives now.
"I gained courage to live a new life," Wang Yong-yo, 67, said, sobbing. "I thought about my dead mother ... she was really beautiful when she was young and was very generous."
The mock funerals are part of a "well-dying" trend in South Korea, a sign that the country, once one of the world's poorest after the devastating 1950-53 Korean War, has grown affluent enough to consider quality-of-life issues.”
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