Instead of making their workers go through faux deaths, the corporations and government should treat their workers and people less like an expendable work force and more like human beings.

Probably won’t happen though; they are occupied by the most heartless country in the world. You s of A is number one country, yes!

Someone our daughter worked with committed suicide earlier this year. She wanted everyone to wear Hawaiian garb at her wake and funeral, acting, I guess, like she was just going off on a cruise. There she lay in her casket in Hawaiian gear with a lei around her neck and in her hair. My protest? To wear regular funeral clothes…she was dead, of her own hand…not vacationing. I stood at the back of the room for a moment before leaving and looked at all those people crying in Hawaiian garb, flowery sloped shoulders, bodies visibly shaking. The joyous bon voyage she imagined? NOT! It was a crowd in – of course – great distress that will follow them for, in many cases, the rest of their own lives. I wish she had gotten the help she needed before she ended her allotted days. There are so many wonderful things she could have brought to life…hers and others’…as is the case for anyone.

kiz–second you on the Iraq vets–BIG problem, and tragic.

S–thanks for sharing your experience. I can really see what you mean.

Eng, Chloe–thanks for your comments!

That wasn’t my point. The point to my post is that the culture demands high success rates in school, at work, in marriages, and it forsakes the will of the idnividual.

But back to your comment that it has “recently been implemented” and is “limited to specific corporations”, I ask that you re-read the following from the story; “Fake funeral training has become so popular that major companies like Samsung have built their own funeral training centers. Hyundai, another large employer, regularly sends employees to “well-dying” training.”

This would indicate to me, that it did not start with these companies, but that there was already significant exposure to this form of therapy among those seeking help from suicidal tendencies right?