Death

Death is a kind of mystery thing, because it can not be experience by ourselves, we just can try to understand death through the death of the others. The other thing make death be mystery, is that we don’t know when we are going to die and also how we are going to die, but we are sure that we will die one day. So that people will have many imaginations toward death.

Recently, I started to think about my own funeral, because of the film “Departures”. The Chinese style funeral is very noisy, a lot of preparing works have to do. The Japanese style is a succinct ceremony, it can provide a peaceful atmosphere for the friends and relatives pay the dead man homage. And

In Japan, a man held a “fake” funeral of himself, he called all his friends and relatives to come, follow all the process of a real funeral, and he is lying inside the coffin, listen to the friend’s feeling about him. It interested me, that man steps close to death psychologically, is it because he is also curious about death? This is a very meaningful experience, but if it happened in china, that man will be scold by many people because of his unwise action.