A peek inside the “Samadhi Death Simulator.” According to UCA News, 10 million people die in the country every year. Some 4.46 million were cremated in 2014. (Photo : Reuters)
What would it feel like slowly getting burned during cremation where, according to the National Funeral Directors Association, the temperature in the cremation chamber is approximately 760 to 1,150 degrees Celsius (1,400-1,800 degrees Fahrenheit)?
From all those who got cremated, no one ever came back to share their experience.
A living human being, however, can somehow feel a teensy-weensy fraction of that experience without turning themselves into a pile of ash.
The “Samadhi Death Simulator” in Shanghai offers such kind of experience many may find weird, even morbid, reported Reuters.
For the curious ones, they will be lying on a coffin that will be placed inside a chamber, which acts as the incinerator.
Afterward, they enter into and get out of a “womb”--a huge latex chute--to symbolize their rebirth.
For 33-year-old Lu Siwei, the experience was “really great and very worthwhile,” according to Reuters.
“When you walk through that door, you will experience changes in your mentality, and you will be different from what it was before you entered,” said Lu.
Another participant, Ji Ruoxin, said that she initially got “a little scared” but once she got inside, she said that “it was all right,” reported Iranian network, Press TV.
In Buddhism and Hinduism, Samadhi, “total self-collectedness” in Sanskrit, refers to the “highest state of mental concentration that a person can achieve while still bound to the body and which unites him with the highest reality,” according to Encyclopaedia Britannica.
These two major religions regard it “as the climax of all spiritual and intellectual activity.”
The Window of the World, a 118-acre (48 hectares) theme park in Shenzhen, amazes its visitors with more than 130 replicas of some of the world’s most famous landmarks and tourist attractions.
One of its “windows,” however, opens up to a view no one may wish to see: death.
The theme park offers one odd ride: “The Cremator,” a trip to a funeral home incinerator aboard an open “coffin” moved by a conveyor belt, according to Daily Mail.
The person will get to lie in the rectangular box, which will then go straight to a fake incinerator unit, which is actually a heated chamber that gives off the feeling of being inside the real thing.
“I feel like I died and came back,” said 22-year-old Ting Shen after trying out the one-of-a-kind gloomy ride, according to Metro.
Simulated death, anyone?
