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| Zeng Jia in her coffin |
(Scroll down for video) A 22-year-old woman surprised her family when she invited them to her rehearsal funeral.
Zeng Jia, a 22-year-old from Wuhan, China decided to hold her own funeral in order to participate in the festivities, while she is still alive.
The young student told the press that she came up with the idea for the funeral event after realizing people spend a lot of time, effort and money on the dead who never have the opportunity to appreciate or enjoy it. Determined not to let that happen to her, Zeng Jia used all her savings to prepare a full funeral service. She had a coffin, flowers and photographer, then she invited friends and family to mourn the loss of life.
To make the whole thing look realistic, Zeng hired makeup artists who specialize in working on dead bodies to give her the look of a dead person, according to press reports. Jia spent an hour playing dead, while her family and friends passed through her casket to say goodbye. After an hour, she jumped out of the casket to attend the funeral, she even delivered a eulogy for herself.
Jia said she wanted to “enjoy all the attention people get at funerals, and she was curious what people will think of her in her final moments.” Jia has no regrets about her funeral staging, and said that the death experience made her appreciate life more.
“This is definitely strange. There is a lot of ways a person to appreciate life. I think the young woman should have spent her savings on an education or a house instead of a mock funeral,” Huian Peng, 30, from China told YourJewishNews.com.
She is not the first person to use a coffin for purposes other than laying a dead person to rest. Stepan Piryanyk, a coffin maker in Truskavets, Ukraine, offered customers the chance to rest in peace, with a coffin therapy session. “Customers relax with the lid open or closed. It is their choice,” he said. “They leave in a peaceful state of clarity and bliss,” Piryanyk said.
"After a hard day of work you can come and relax. It's great. You go home in a completely different mood," Anna Petrukhina, 51, told news reporters. Treatment that usually lasts 15 minutes each session costs $25.
It was discovered that lying in coffins may help treat psychological problems as well as stress.
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