An employee of Okuribito funeral service company lies in a casket next to an altar decorated with flowers and balloons during an exhibition of the company's service at the Life Ending Industry Expo in Tokyo.
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timtak
"Life Ending" may be a translation of the recentish buzzword "shukatsu" 終活 (lit "end activity" or "end life" punning on job seeking 就活 and related to partner seeking konkatsu 婚活) . For those that have missed the expo there is a shukatsu festa in Tokyo from September 11th http://www.shukatsu-fesuta.com/index.html
Fadamor
New kind of "booth babe"... Don't have to talk/know about the product; don't have to wear swimsuits or hot pants and a halter-top; and don't have to endlessly smile for 10,000 photographs. PLUS you're off your feet for the whole gig! RAKKII!
mtuffizi
never see this before. i would not take this assignment.
Camman80
What! Creepy as heck!
lucabrasi
@CGB
Ironically, life is short too, and we'll all have the chance to try out similar products soon enough....
CGB Spender
Expo is too short! I'd like to go but have to work.
Cliffy
Probably something like this crossed her mind. Damn, my nose is itchy, don't snore, don't snore.
smithinjapan
The "Life Ending Industry", eh? Once again, they couldn't have just asked a native English speaker how it would sound, I guess.
wtfjapan
There is something gravely wrong with this. Shes a dead ringer for the real thing
Christopher Glen
Weird picture
edojin
I can think of all kinds of jobs I would not want to do ... and this is definitely one of them. Not hard to do ... but can you imagine lying there for a long time while people watch you "work" ...
A.N. Other
Do tell...
kyuushuudanji
Damn, I thought for a second that it was a real dead body.
KnowBetter
I wonder if there is a booth for Corleone or Capone at that Expo?
Sapporodenki
Can't help it but looks like a worn out plastic sex doll to me. R.I.P.
inkochi
Looks like 'rest in peace', except for the press photographers, advertisers, exhibition visitors, florists and balloon-blowers.
I wonder if she gets overtime if she falls asleep. Or just prodded by people making sure that she is not actually dead. Funny if she were though!
some14some
Wish an older employee was selected.
Wakarimasen
As long as she didn't karoshii.
Sabine Michler
Best job ever! Sleeping while working :D
Sherman
There is something gravely wrong with this.
Lockke
lol.. bad luck amy here.. not only does she get to 'rest' on that casket, it also gets photographed and posted in a national online article. lol
Sensato
I had to laugh at the name of this trade show, Life Ending Industry Expo — it sounds like a trade show for companies in the euthanasia business.
This is obviously the official translation of the expo's Japanese name, "ending industry expo" (エンディング産業展), but "End of Life Industry Expo" would have been a somewhat better translation.
thepersoniamnow
Dont work yourself to death now