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Professional mourners who are hired to ’mourn’ at funerals
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Kenya CitizenTV: Professional mourners who are hired to ’mourn’ at funerals
Professional mourners are becoming more popular throughout the world. The practice is exactly what it sounds like: hiring actors to come to a funeral and pretend to care. Many will argue that it is wrong to profit from funerals and people who are grieving. It can also seem distasteful to trick other attendees and family members by ‘manufacturing’ emotions at a funeral. Think what you may, professional mourning is a now a source of employment. We spoke to 21 year old, Daniel Ochieng , a professional mourner from Migori county, to find out what it’s like to have a job that seems too ridiculous to be true.
- Category: Acting Crisis/Bad Crisis Actor,Crisis Actors / Acting Skills,Circus / Charade / Theater,Theatre / Play a Role
- Duration: 03:23
- Date: 2021-04-21 18:57:26
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Professional mourners are becoming more popular throughout the world. The practice is exactly what it sounds like. And basically you hire actors to come to a funeral and pretend to care. Many will argue that it is wrong to profit from funerals and people who are grieving. It can also seem distasteful to trick other attendees and family members by quote-unquote manufacturing emotions at a funeral. Think what you may, professional mourning is now a source of employment. We spoke to 21-year-old Daniel Occieng, a professional mourner from Migori County, to find out what it's like to have a job that seems too ridiculous to be true. Take a look. I'm going to be a professional mourner. Being a professional mourner is just like a talent. A professional mourner is just a talent like a comedian, a talent like singing. He is a singer. He is a singer. I am a musician and a musician. I've been experienced a lot of male and female musicians and their dear guests. A group of artists kept me from the seat on the 청eon. Even if I haven't sido a professional mourner who still can see there. Someone else, compared to the other not having seen it, covering me at the moment. That's always surprising. And someone who isn't, if you don't know, can't see the cuckooigns. happen to hear that anyone who is second-hand would never hear. When I was in the village, I was in the village of Katiwata. Apart from that, I was in the village of Katiwata. I was in the village of Kaganakasin, Gungus, Nana, Katiwa, and Savvatu. I was in the village of the village of Sazasai, Sizi, to Nanda. I was in the village of Kaganakasin, to Nasa, to Nasa, to Nasa. Sazai was in the village of Kaganakasin, to Nanda. I was in the village of Katiwata, to Nata. I was in the village of Kaganakasin, to Nasa, to Nasa. . . I'm babo apelé ke im soada tako buongke wa diskas wa you e toko hampa na we are here to stay. I really don't want to laugh and you know Simon here in studio just told me at least if you're the most disliked person in the village people wouldn't know and that's a very good piece and I really really didn't want to laugh.