Women from Chongqing in south
west China who claimed to be fed up with life are being taken to the 'grave
classroom' to enable them have a feeling of what death is all about. The purpose
of the experiment is to enable them to appreciate being alive, despite what
challenge they face.
The aforementioned classroom was
founded by a thirty-year-old Liu Taijie after she recovered from an attempt to
commit suicide three years ago.
The attempted suicide came after
she could not get a job for herself having made several attempts to find one,
during that turbulent period of joblessness, her marriage also began to fail, as
she was abandoned by her husband and despised by members of her family, which
perhaps led to her frustration.
Liu created the 'grave
classroom', which consists of a small piece of open land on a hillside with six
shallow graves dug into it.
Women are then invited to lie in
the holes and contemplate the world without them in it.
They are also given mindfulness
lessons in the grave classroom, and encouraged to regain their confidence and
self-worth .
"I was deceived by a pyramid
selling scam and I wanted to die.
"Tears are useless and death
cannot solve problems. I want to change and use my experience to help
women."
According to the People’s Daily
China, an emotional lady who recently made use of the ‘grave classroom’ told
the journalist that: "When I think of that if I were dead - my parents, my
child and my husband...
"They would not be able to
take it."
Liu added: "Through
experiencing death, I hope to dare them to face life, to appreciate life.
"To have an optimistic
attitude towards failures and towards life. To have a better future."
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