Do-it-yourself projects aren’t just fun, they’re financially
rewarding too. When you consider all the things you can do yourself, it seems
like you’re practically throwing your money away by paying someone else to
build your furniture, repair your car, or hold your funeral, doesn’t it?
What’s that? You said you’ve never heard of anyone having a
DIY funeral? To be honest, neither have we, but there’s now a company in Japan
that’s offering to set customers up with a kit to let them handle the ceremony
themselves.
Tsubasa, a funerary services company based in Nagano Prefecture,
has begun taking orders for its new DIY Funeral Set. The set includes a wooden
coffin, with a fold-open window to show the face of the deceased, as well as a
pillow, mattress, and blanket. The package also provides an urn for ashes and a
silver-accented box to hold the bones left over after cremation, as well as
three furoshiki wrapping cloths. Finally, there’s a handbook that explains how
to perform the ceremony’s rites to put the soul of the departed at ease.
Priced at 25,800 yen (US$240), the DIY Funeral Set is a
major savings over the services of a professional funeral hall. Not that we’re
planning on dying anytime soon, but a bit of online research shows that the
average price of a funeral in Japan is somewhere around 2 million yen, so Tsubasa’s
kit is a huge savings.
We should point out that the kit is only meant to give
buyers what they need for the funeral ceremony itself. The handbook doesn’t
teach you how to use cosmetics to prepare the deceased’s face, so you may still
need to contact a mortician for that, and you’ll also need the services of a
licensed crematorium after the ceremony.
Oh, and since SoraNes24 is deeply devoted to linguistics, we
must also mention that the DIY Funeral Set is really a do-it-for-someone-else
funeral kit, since no matter how industrious you are by the time it’s your turn
to be the one in the casket, you’re really not going to be in any position to
carry out the ceremony yourself.
But provided you’ve got a friend or family member who you
think would be willing to do you one last favor, Tsubasa’s DIY Funeral Set can
be ordered online.
Source: https://soranews24.com/
