Feeling grave about your life? Here’s the latest therapy to really brighten your day. Why not have yourself nailed into a coffin and have dirt sprinkled on while your very own funeral dirge drones in the background?

According to Korea Life Consulting Co, this is going to make you feel a whole lot better - and about Dhs1,200 poorer. Their experts have devised the fiendish plan of creating a mock funeral. You can even read your own will before popping into the box.

Their funeral parlour - located, we believe, somewhere in the dead centre of Korea - is decorated with pictures of famous people who have passed on, such as Diana, Princess of Wales.

Clients are dressed in funeral robes and told they are about to be put to rest. Then they are nailed into a coffin, to the strains of funereal music, and dirt is thrown on top. Fifteen minutes later they are released and “reborn”.

This cathartic experience is supposed to help you reflect on your past and make you focus on the pleasures to be had by being alive and kicking.

“I felt really, really scared,” said 23-year-old engineering student Lee Hye-jung as she emerged from the coffin. “I’ll live differently from now on, so as not to have any regrets about my life.”

Some of Korea’s largest corporations have already sent staff to be resurrected to improve their work performance.  Let’s see if it catches on over here - or indeed anywhere else.