The festival Shukattsu Japanese funeral is applied to the face make-up and lie in coffins

In Japan, you can "kick the bucket" ponaroshku



Lie down in a coffin while still alive - this is a very unpleasant experience. But the Japanese seem to love it! They have a terrible festival, during which people can lie in coffins, funerary try on clothes, and even put on the face make-up funeral. A unique event called "Festival Shukattsu" has become very popular in recent years. Trend "Shukattsu", which means "to prepare for the end," is gaining momentum in Japan. Apparently, people have stopped to think that the preparation for death is a bad omen. Festival participants are free to choose their burial clothes, put on it, lie down in a coffin topped with flowers and photographed. Thus they are able to see exactly how they will look on the day of its actual burial. They can also apply on face special make-up, which will give them a deadly pale face. Yet they may be asked to cover them with special white blankets before attending closed the lid of the coffin.





The festival is popular with both men and women. At this year's event in Tokyo attended by more than 5,000 people and 50 companies during the funeral of the festival compete with each other to increase their profits. But this is not just a festival, a tendency to plan his own funeral for the last few years really caught on in Japan, and even coffins manufacturers began printing special guidelines on the use of its products, in order to enable people to better get acquainted with everything.





If you think that the Japanese are not the first who thought to lie in a coffin, being alive and healthy. Some time ago in the network, there were reports about the special psychotherapeutic services provided in the Chinese city of Shenyang. There patients experienced "psychological rebirth", rested a few minutes in a closed coffin. A similar thing happened once, and in Ukraine, where an enterprising undertaker inviting people to lie down in one of its products to potential customers can experience all the delights of the afterlife.









via factroom.ru

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