Week 2 Weirdest expo?: Hilary

Putting the 'fun' in funeral..

'Shukatsu Festa' funeral business fair/expo in Tokyo

This expo in Japan lets you try resting in a coffin, allowing the participant to plan their own funeral down to exactly what they’ll be wearing on the day. This expo helps people plan their sending off, with death being a growing business in Japan with their aging population and declining birth rates.

At this expo, people lay in coffins try on their “last journey after death” outfits, got death appropriate make overs and posed for funeral portraits.

Although this is a grim topic, this has turned into a craze in Japan, more and more people are planning for death like they would plan for a wedding. This includes selecting a coffin and what outfit they’ll be wearing. This ‘try before you die’ funeral expo attracted over 5,000 people and 50 companies.

This is a way for people to plan the perfect goodbye.. although this would be a pretty morbid expo to attend

A woman lies in a coffin at the annual 'Shukatsu Festa' funeral business fair in Tokyo on Aug. 24, 2014

https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-08-29/weird-funeral-expo-japan-offers-people-chance-try-you-die