New fashion in Japan: funeral in life

In Japan believe that the country's population within the next fifty years will decrease by 30 million people. In this regard, the currently popular services such as organizing their own funeral. The Japanese are pragmatic and to your own funeral want to prepare in advance. The organization of a future funeral by using a funeral home professionals who conduct seminars on this topic. People choose their own place of burial, coffin, order the photos on the monuments, and even conduct a photo shoot of my own funeral.

1. Noriaki Iwashima posing in a coffin.

2. Junkoh of Nakagura praying at the cemetery, where the crystals are cut more than 2,000 Buddha statues.

3. In Central Tokyo there is a cemetery, in which numerous figures of Buddha are illuminated by led lights.

4. People walk on the high-rise cemetery in Central Tokyo after attending the funeral of his relative in life, October 27, 2014.

5. An employee shows how to use modern equipment that you can easily find any urn or tombstone, October 27, 2014.

6. Men pray before the grave at the cemetery Ryogoku in Tokyo, October 27, 2014.

7. Yukiko Kimura and her sister pray for the repose of the soul of her husband, Yukiko. Grave in the present cemetery in Central Tokyo.

8. Cemetery in Central Tokyo. Buddha statues carved in crystals.

9. After the seminar, conducted by a major funeral company Aeon Co, Katsumi Niki came to pick out a casket.

10. Employee funeral company helps Katsumi Niki to lie in a coffin.

11. The employee covers the lid of the coffin in which lies Katsumi Niki.

12. Natsumi Niki smiling from the grave that she is going to purchase.

13. A woman visits the hairdresser before you take a photo on your tombstone.

14. The woman shows the photo that will be attached to her headstone.

15. Kazuo Furumoto examines the photo on his grave.

16. Woman trying on a dress that is suitable for funeral, at the annual fair for the sale of funeral goods in Tokyo.

17. Buddha statues carved in crystals.

18. A woman prays in a cemetery in Tokyo in front of thousands of luminous figures of the Buddha.