By: ELOISE WALTON
PARISHIONERS IN Berlin, Germany, were given an opportunity to lie in an open grave by their local vicar, in an attempt to escape the stresses and strains of daily life.
“I meant it as a meditative exercise,” said Vicar Thorsten Nolting, adding: “I wanted people to think about what weighs on them down in the darkness and gather the energy to resist it.”
The vicar said that his plan went “horribly wrong” when journalists persisted in questioning the parishioners when they were laid to rest and ruined the serenity of the occasion.
