Original title: college students lie in coffins to experience death. Is it a show or a reflection on life?
4hw.org on November 7, there was a special activity in Henan Institute of animal husbandry economics, which attracted wide attention. It was a special education activity called "life experience" organized by the psychological center of the college. In the activity, students can directly experience "marriage, childbirth, disability, death and other scenes". Of course, lie in the coffin and feel a funeral of their own, The process of experiencing death from zero distance is controversial.
White paper flowers, black coffins, grieving couplets, grieving sorrows, mourning relatives and friends, all of which can't be felt in person in one's life, because the person lying in the coffin has already left the world. All our deaths with memories are about others. But here, it's like a rehearsal of the end of life. In the lifetime, experience death.
In fact, this kind of behavior is not the first of its kind in Henan Institute of animal husbandry and economics. Not long ago, in a university in the Netherlands, there was a similar death experience course, a dug grave with only a yoga mat and pillow in it. Students can stay in it for 30 minutes to 3 hours. In the process, any telephone electronic products and books can not be used. In the face of those who Students who feel tired, anxious about the future and have no direction in life provide a kind of stress relief situation. In 2016, a death experience Museum named "wake up" opened in Shanghai. The behavioral art experience Museum, which was founded by crowdfunding 410000 yuan, was closed only one year after its opening. On the one hand, it was because of the resistance of traditional concepts to death; on the other hand, it was also difficult to survive because of the rare customers and huge costs, because consumers had to spend 20000 yuan to experience "death" once 。
Is "death experience" a show or has practical significance? Most netizens hold different views on it.
The traditional concept of death has a natural conflict.
Some netizens think that life, old age and death are natural. In our traditional culture, there is also a natural conflict with death. The word "death" is very unlucky. During the new year's festival, even the word "mildew" can't be said. When we meet and bury, we are far away. What's more, we live a good life and experience it in the coffin. Even if college students can accept it, their parents will be angry.
It's just boring.
Some young people who are very open-minded think it's no big deal. They don't really want to die. They can accept and experience anything that can be innovative. In this way, they are more alternative and bold. At the same time, it is also a special experience in life. For them, even if they participate in the activity, it seems to have egg ache, which is sheer boredom.
It is necessary for the death education of College Students
It is true that many young people now have poor psychological quality, do not have a correct understanding of life and death, do not realize the value of life, almost every year there are suicides such as jumping off buildings. However, this may also be the result of their impulsive, but there is no regret medicine in the world, life will never give you a second chance. If we can reflect on our life and suddenly realize the meaning of life in the process of 'experiencing death', it is also a meaningful educational activity.
Yu Hua not only has a book "living" which is very popular with readers, but also has a novel called "the seventh day". He describes an ordinary person who stays in the world as a ghost for seven days after he dies. He describes the real world from the perspective of the dead. There is inevitably thinking about the past. Although the work seems a bit absurd, this kind of black humor also has a very high present Real meaning. People's life, only at the moment of dying, can we really understand the meaning of life, can we regret that there are too many things not completed in this life, can we understand that we have wasted too much time. We could have lived better, we could have lived more, but once death comes, you will never have a chance to come back.
I think the purpose of all forms of 'death experience' is to make people seriously think about the meaning of life when they are alive and have the ability to make changes. Death is inevitable, is everyone's end point, but a correct understanding of life and death, can live a different life. What would you think?