by Faw_Peter » 21 Sep 2009, 15:55
A consolation for some, for others a macabre museum. A Buddhist temple in Thailand has become the last refuge for many patients with AIDS. It is, however, more than that. Monks who manages it transformed him into a museum of life and death. Patients waiting for beds or already dead end and are mummified exhibits. Main entrance, a billboard announces that you enter into a "museum of life. But in the opulent palace, with gold and jade statues of Buddha, see something else. Mummified bodies of former patients are displayed on shelves or in glass showcases, while in nearby beds, dying is preparing to join macabrelor exhibits.
Thousands of Thai poor or no family came to die here in the last 20 years. In exchange for care, some agree to donate the museum body after death. This explains this mummy. To produce a stronger impression and, besides mummies are exhibited photos from the life of the deceased. Understand visitor so that the body that remembers only one human being was some years ago of a singer, an artisan or a craftsman prostitutes.
The monks say that they look to visitors not how precious life is, but how natural is death. Although not at all pleasant, the temple draws crowds of curious tourists and Buddhist believers. Among them, there are whole classes of children brought to school visits.