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This picture taken on January 16, 2016 shows devotees offering prayers as they sit in coffins at the end of a group resurrection ceremony at the Wat Ta Kien Buddhist temple in Nonthaburi on the outskirts of Bangkok. Ever since monks first began performing this ritual in 2008, dozens of people have been coming each day to Wat Ta Kien temple, undergoing a symbolic death as they're looking for the chance to start again. The ceremony - that involves lying down in a coffin draped over by a bright pink sheet which is then removed to symbolise death and rebirth in a ritual that lasts barely a minute - aims to rid participants of bad karma and help reconcile them to the inevitability of death. AFP PHOTO / Christophe ARCHAMBAULT (Photo by CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / AFP) (Photo by CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT/AFP via Getty Images)