{"id":13480,"date":"2015-12-28T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13480"},"modified":"2015-12-28T14:48:15","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T19:48:15","slug":"mock-funerals-to-reduce-suicides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/mock-funerals-to-reduce-suicides\/","title":{"rendered":"Mock Funerals To Reduce Suicides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/122815_1945_MockFuneral1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stephen Evans wrote about a company that has come up with an odd strategy to bring down South Korea&#8217;s high suicide rate:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Employees watch videos of people who have overcome adversity \u2013 such as a terminal cancer patient enjoying their last few days of life.<\/li>\n<li>They are then asked to don white robes and write farewell letters to their families.<\/li>\n<li>Then they get inside their coffins and hug a picture of themselves.<\/li>\n<li>Someone dressed as the Angel of Death (artist&#8217;s impression depicted above) then bangs the coffin shut.<\/li>\n<li>While inside employees are meant to reflect on the meaning of life and learn to appreciate it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read what the employees thought about this, and how this ties into wider South Korean work and study culture <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-34797017\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-34797017\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Evans wrote about a company that has come up with an odd strategy to bring down South Korea&#8217;s high suicide rate: Employees watch videos of people who have overcome adversity \u2013 such as a terminal cancer patient enjoying their last few days of life. They are then asked to don white robes and write [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/122815_1945_MockFuneral1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13480"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13485,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13480\/revisions\/13485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}