Netherlands university offers grave for students to lie in and think about life

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KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 11 — A university in The Netherlands has come up with a unique way for students to contemplate life and death.Located at Radboud University, its latest offering has been reported by various news outlets.

In asking students to sign up for the experience, the university’s website said that one can lie in it to reflect about life and what was important.“So it’s an invitation along the lines of: make something out of your life.”Telephones and books are prohibited. The project was started by school chaplain John Hacking who told news outlet Ruptly that it was an opportunity for students to explore and appreciate life.

Hacking said about 30 students have emailed asking to spend time in the grave since the beginning of the school year.“When you are in the grave, you are not dead!” Hacking was reported as saying in Vice.

 

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