Brazilian Woman Celebrates Her Own Funeral While Still Alive

A Brazilian woman has fulfilled her fourteen-year-long dream of experiencing her own funeral while still alive. Vera Lucia da Silva arranged for herself to lie in a coffin all day, while her family and friends pretended she was dead. The ceremony took place on the Day of the Dead in South America at a funeral home. The Brazilian woman has always had a fascination for funeral ceremonies, so it was no surprise that she described the day as “the best day of her life.”  

See Janet Tappin Coelho, ‘Being Dead Was the Best Day of My Life!’ Woman Pretends to Have Died and Spends a Day Lying in a Coffin so She Can Experience Her Own Funeral, Daily Mail, November 3, 2016.