The popularity of an unusual new theme park ride proves nothing draws a crowd like a near death experience.
At the Window Of The World theme park in Shenzhen, China, people are queuing up for the 4D Death Simulator – otherwise known as the cremation ride.
The ride requires punters to climb into a coffin. Once inside their temporary resting place, the lucky thrill-seeker is then shoved into a furnace by a ghoulish attendant.
Fortunately, the person isn’t actually turned into a handful of dust by a raging fire, as they are removed soon after.
However, the mock-oven does reach an uncomfortable 40 degrees, so you wouldn’t want the attendant nip out for a cigarette while you’re in there.
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‘You really feel like you’re being burnt alive,’ said 22-year-old Ting Shen. ‘I feel like I died and came back.’
A spokesman for the park has assured people that the ride is completely safe, offering them the chance to indulge their odder fantasies.
‘People have a morbid fascination with death and the after-life and this is a good way of experiencing both,’ he said.
It hasn’t proved quite so popular with the older clientele. Mum Yue Wan Ho, 43, accompanied his kids on a walk around the morgue but didn’t fancy opt for the coffin.
‘I think I’ll wait until my time is really up before pretending it is.’
http://metro.co.uk/2014/10/26/get-a-taste-of-the-afterlife-with-one-theme-parks-cremation-ride-4921895/ 
