A bizarre "death experience" school in South Korea has been launched in response to the growing suicide rate in the country, where 40 people a day kill themselves, according to First To Know.
The increasing suicide outbreak is blamed on the extremely competitive society the country has, where adults and elderly people complain of financial problems and the Korean youth feel pressured to be successful.
The purpose of the Hyowon Healing Center is simple: to explain to the pupils that the problems they face in life are part of life and that they must try to embrace and look at the bright side of the adversities that life brings.
Jeong Yong-mun, the head of the school and a former funeral company employee, hopes that the pupils who are depressed will be able to appreciate life again if they experience what it's like to be dead for a day, the Daily Mail U.K. reported.
The students at the center are sat in between rows of coffins. They are then made to create and sign fake wills and are then locked up inside the coffins where they are given mock funeral services.
Among those who attend the classes at the center are students who have difficulty in managing the pressure of taking exams, parents who feel useless when their children find jobs and leave home and the elderly who fear that they will become a problem to the young families.
South Korea has the second highest suicide rates in the world.
Based on a government survey conducted in April, suicide is the top cause of death amongst South Korean youth. South Korans today who are aged 9 to 24 endure a higher suicide rate than 10 years earlier, according to United Press International.
