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Participants inside coffins during a ‘living funeral’ event as part of a ‘dying well’ programme in South Korea. [Reuters]
A South Korean service is offering free funerals - but only to the living.
More than 25,000 people have participated in mass “living funeral” services at Hyowon Healing Center since it opened in 2012, hoping to improve their lives by simulating their deaths.
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