For students, dealing with?exam stress?becomes a bigger source of stress,?and most of us think ¡®maut hi aa jati¡¯. A Dutch university seems to have taken this a bit too literally, for anyone's comfort. No, the university is not helping them die, but it is helping them experience very closely, what it would feel like.?
Radboud University in Nijmegen has come up with quite an out-of-the-box idea and dug a ¡®meditative grave¡¯ for its students, in order to help them cope with exam stress.?Apparently, many universities in the area have been trying to come up with a range of therapies for students who suffer from anxiety during exams.?
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According to Mirror, ¡®Some have offered therapy dog sessions, mindfulness meetings, and even designated quiet spaces¡¯, but no one has gone to the depths that Radboud University did, literally.
The university has gone viral after it was revealed that it offers a grave to students to deal with stress.?The open grave is behind the student chapel, and though it is not supposed to serve its literal purpose, students are ¡®dying¡¯ to step into it.?
The sign inside the grave reads, ¡®stay weird¡¯.?Apparently, the project has become really popular among the students, so much so, that there is a waiting list for people to secure the grave.?
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"Me and my housemate were planning on going a week ago, a week and a half ago, and we found that there is a waiting list to actually get into the grave, so it's quite popular, so we didn't get the chance yet, but I plan to go sometime soon whenever I move up," Mirror quoted student Sean McLaughlin as saying.?
The 'purification grave', comes with a blanket and yoga mat, allows for comfortable meditation, though in a morbid environment.?
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The idea of the grave is to make pupils appreciate and value their time on earth, according to the project founder John Hacking.?John said to Ruptly, "The end of life, death, is a taboo, difficult for students... death is very difficult to talk about, especially when you are 18, 19, 20 years old."
The posters for the grave reads, ¡®memento mori¡¯ which is Latin for ¡®remember you will die¡¯. The grave can be booked for 30 minutes to 3 hours.?
Well, if it's actually helping the students deal with stress, who are we to complain??