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This Month's Oddity in the News: Need therapy? Here's a new twist |
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"After a hard working day you can come in and just relax -- it's great. You go home in a completely different mood," Anna Petrukhina, 51, told Reuters. Her photo is below: NEW IDEA TO RELAX: COFFIN THERAPY Reuters, February 3, 2013 -- A Ukrainian coffin maker is helping potential customers get comfortable -- but not too comfortable. Stepan Piryanyk, an enterprising funerary box maker in Truskavets, offers afterlife-fearing patrons the opportunity to rest in peace with a session of coffin therapy. The backstory to the 15-minute treatment is everything as creepy as you hoped for. Piryanyk explains about his own upbringing: "At one time our parents, as a rule, kept a coffin in the attic. Then our grandma -- who didn't have an attic -- came to us because she lived in an apartment. She asked us to make something that she could put in her apartment. So we decided to make her a coffin couch. You lay down on it in the evening and slowly get used to eternity." Customers relax with the lid open or closed -- their choice -- and leave in a peaceful state of clarity and bliss. Hopefully. "After a hard working day you can come in and just relax -- it's great. You go home in a completely different mood," Anna Petrukhina, 51, told Reuters. The BBC reports that each session costs $25 while other outlets say the treatment is free. Either way, everyone ends up a customer eventually. See the video HERE |
COFFIN THERAPY IS ALSO PRACTICED IN CHINA A new form of therapy in China has patients lie in coffins in order to relieve their stress, as a group of volunteers are participating in the act as a special form of experimental psychotherapy. See the article HERE |