Kid-Mai Cafe Wants Visitors to See Death Closer

Dying for a new cafe experience? Bangkok’s new Kid-Mai Death Cafe aims to please, boldly featuring death.

Parts of a replica funeral ceremony are on display, including a coffin, wreaths and skeletons. According to the cafe workers – no, not a skeleton staff – the idea is to have patrons appreciate and contemplate their everyday lives, as they may not have the luxury of waking up the next day.

Customers can experience a fleeting death by lying down in the decorated coffin with its lid closed for three minutes, for which they will earn a 20-baht (US 64-cent) discount off their bill.

On the menu are drinks with such labels as Born, Elder, Painful and Death, not to mention One Year Left, One Week Left and Last Day.

The cafe was described by Japanese blog ora24 was “morbidally brilliant”.

This experience of a lifetime is offered by the cafe in the Bangkok suburb of Phayathai.