Chapter 72: Well, Live (1)

The city at midnight has a depraved beauty, and only a small patch of the whole sky can be seen, a black curtain, and occasionally a few small stars scattered around, and the night breeze is cool and deep.

Not far from the entrance of the bar, there is a girl handing out advertising flyers.

It's strange that at such a late hour, there are still people handing out advertising flyers. What's even stranger is the words on the advertising flyer, which are printed with four big red horror characters:

"Coffin Academy".

Underneath the large letters, there are two lines of small print:

Do you want to attend your own "funeral", do you want to figure out death and start a new life?

Lin Yangyang and I looked at each other. Because they heard it for the first time, they couldn't help but be curious, and the two said in unison: "What does the Coffin Academy do?"

This girl is really smart, and knows that women who go to bars without men are mostly lovelorn, or frustrated, desperate women for life - of course, unhappy, discouraged women with life, most of them have a grief on their faces. Like, me and Lin Yangyang.

The girl stayed not far from the bar, and when she saw the possibility, she handed out advertising leaflets.

She explains:

"This is a virtual institution for people who have suicidal thoughts due to stress, depression, or setbacks, and can participate in their own mock funerals, so that everyone can experience a death test first-hand and evoke the belief of rebirth. ”

Is there really such an institution?

Lin Yangyang and I glanced at each other, half-convinced.

When I got home, I went online to check it out. It turns out that there really is a "coffin academy". The so-called "coffin academy" is, in fact, a kind of "mock funeral".

After signing up, participants can make an appointment on the date and time of the experience, and they can experience the horror of death in the "Coffin Academy". The whole process lasted 4 hours, from tearfully writing a suicide note and epitaph, to attending his own "funeral".

This kind of mock funeral service has become fashionable in South Korea today. It is said that this way of "experiencing death" can relieve psychological stress and illness, reduce the suicide rate, and make people cherish life more and face it with a positive attitude.

I called Lin Yangyang:

"Do you want to go to the 'Coffin Academy' to experience 'death'? Anyway, if you don't really want to die, you can regret it, and you can also be sure if you really want to die. If death is really nothing to be afraid of, then it is better to simply die than to be entangled all the time, it is better to die. ”

Lin Yangyang hesitated:

"What about you? Do you want to go? If you go, I will go too. ”

I say:

"Okay, let's go together. ”

Two days later, Cheng Yifei went to the hospital - he didn't know what was wrong with his body, and he had to go for a checkup. Therefore, when I was free, Lin Yangyang and I really went to the "Coffin Academy" to attend our own "funeral" and experience "death".

The "Coffin Academy" is in a red building on the outskirts of the city.

The environment there is very good, surrounded by green mountains and green waters, forming a peninsula-shaped. It is like a paradise, the air is fresh, the scenery is beautiful, on the opposite side of the river, there are mountains one after another, and at the foot are patches of terraced fields, verdant and green, endless and beautiful, just like the landscape painting in a postcard, which makes people forget to return.

In addition to Lin Yangyang and me, there were several other people who went to the "coffin academy" to participate in their "mock funeral" -- all in their twenties and thirties.

They look anxious or dazed.

Some are accompanied by a parent or friend.

(To be continued)