Before they are "buried", participants are asked to pose for their funeral portrait.
Participants enter a "death experience room" where they choose a coffin and put on a "death robe".
Course members get into their coffins and a flower is laid on each person's chest.
Funeral attendants place a lid on the coffin and dirt is thrown on the casket.
Participants are left in the closed casket for five minutes and some start to cry in the darkness.

That is disturbing.

Awesome!

Actually other, similar activities do have positive affects though for those deeply depressed and considering suicide. Writing out the self-story up to and including death itself helps sort out key problem areas as if the writer were an observer from a safe vantage point. These methods are a way to speak aloud instead of holding in.

Bob Wiley: What are you doing with the gun, Dr. Marvin?

Dr. Leo Marvin: Death Therapy, Bob. It's a guaranteed cure.

Certainly reminds me of a similar thing being done in that great '90s movie Empire Records.

At least this might put an end to the myth that Sweden has the highest suicide rate in the world.

I wonder if this whole idea is cribbed from the fake suicide in the movie "M*A*S*H."

I don't quite see how this would prevent suicide, but at least it lets you test-drive the concept to see how you like it before you're, so to speak, permanently committed.

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