2.11.2006
A renowned Hungarian theatre director with terminal cancer is to lie in state for a week while still alive so he can experience his own funeral.
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"I'm curious how a funeral looks from the other side," Halasz told BBC World Service's Outlook programme. "I want to take a look at my friends and listen to the eulogies, and the final farewell. "The event itself is very simple, but the outcome will I guess be interesting, because people are rarely confronted with the situation - that there is another angle to look at this gathering, at themselves, and at me."
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"I'm curious how a funeral looks from the other side," Halasz told BBC World Service's Outlook programme. "I want to take a look at my friends and listen to the eulogies, and the final farewell. "The event itself is very simple, but the outcome will I guess be interesting, because people are rarely confronted with the situation - that there is another angle to look at this gathering, at themselves, and at me."
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