DAILY STAR
A bloke decided to hold his own funeral while still alive and said the death “experience” gave him a renewed vigour for life.
Víctor Amela, 63, said goodbye to his friends and family before digging a grave on the farm where he was born. He ordered a coffin and spent an hour underground.
The Spanish writer even had a priest come in to conduct the service and asked loved ones to read eulogies. Amela told Spanish TV show Horizonte: “My friends spoiled me. It was wonderful and I enjoyed it immensely.
“When they covered me and I was left in the dark, I could hear the shovelfuls of dirt landing on the coffin. For a second, I was gripped by panic. But it came and went away. I then started to relax and enjoy it. I wished I could stay there longer.”
Amela’s loved ones went all out for the service, with him able to hear them as they sobbed during the eulogies. “I was born again,” he explained, “I wanted to continue living for another 40 years.”
Amela first became interested in his own death when he was 15, and at the time used a Ouija board to ask the spirits when he would die. “I regretted it later, don’t do it at home,” he said, adding that the spirits gave him until 65. “For a 15-year-old boy, 65 years feels like immortality, it is very far away.
