Thai Death-Themed Cafe Wants Visitors to Appreciate Life More
The Kid-Mai
Death Cafe looks more like the scene of a funeral than a place you’d want to
hang out with your friends. Black is the dominant color, but that’s probably
the least morbid thing about this establishment. Funeral wreaths are used as
floral decorations, items on the menu have names like “ageing”, “painful”,
“illness”, and “death” and are displayed as funeral photos at the bar, and
there’s even a coffin that visitors can lie down in to get a small discount.
But
that’s not all. Scattered through Kid-Mai Death Cafe are a variety of
inspirational/morbid signs like “Are you ready if tonight you would just sleep
and never wakes up again?” or “Eventually, you can bring nothing”, which I
assume is Google Translate for “In the end, you can’t take anything with you”.
If you’re in a writing mood, you can grab a piece of paper and a pen and write
your own will.
Why go
through the trouble of opening a death-themed cafe? Well, the people
behind Kid-Mai prefer the term “death awareness cafe”. Their main goal is
to make people accept their mortality and inspire them to enjoy every moment of
their life, because they never know when it’s going to end.
To
become more comfortable with the idea of death, patrons can even lie down in a
life-size coffin. If they can handle sraying in the coffin with the lid on for
at least three minutes, visitors get a 20 bhat discount on their order.
It’s basically a symbolic discount, but I guess some people need all the
motivation they can get.
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