New service ensures a lot of drama and a lot of whining during funerals

Needing someone to turn up and show sadness at wakes? It was thinking of this bizarre kind of problem that a company in Britain decided to make people available to cry at funerals and to prevent the ceremonies from appearing empty.

Strangely, this new business is relatively expensive. The Rent a Mouner agency (something like “Rent a whiner ') offers people to whimper at funerals for the 45 pound an hour bag, the equivalent of $ 137.21. Despite the bizarre service, the company has been present in 52 events since its launch last year.

Agency founder Ian Robertson told The Telegraph that employees, when hired, seek personal and professional information about the deceased in order to socialize with others at the ceremony. Robertson says he plans to expand the structure of his company and says he has already had to turn down more than 60 contracts in neighboring cities because of the distance.

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The idea of ​​hiring people to cry at wakes is not that new, believe me. This is already happening in some parts of Asia. This is the case of Liu Jun-Lin, known in Taiwan as the best "weeping" of wake.

In Liu's country, it is a tradition for the wake to be flashy and tearful. There, it is believed that the deceased will make a better passage to the other side of life if there is much commotion at his funeral. And that's why in Taiwan this practice of weeping at wakes you didn't even know existed is commonplace.

True tears

Liu promotes his business by justifying that, by losing someone very close and loved, family members cry so much that when the time comes for the funeral, there are no more tears to shed. About her own tears, she says they are true.

She also explains that in the past many daughters left home to work and that if someone in the meantime died, it was very difficult to get home in time for the farewell ceremonies. So it was very common for families to hire a surrogate daughter to attend the wake.

Culture seems to be spreading around the world. Does she get here to Brazil? What do you think about this type of service?