You can now call your dead loved ones by phone

Shocked? Following the devastating toll of a 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan with numerous lives lost, a man named Itaru Sasaki decided to install a phone booth in Otsuchi, Japan so those who lost loved ones could have a therapeutic way of coping with their grief. He had earlier installed the phone booth in his garden as a way of coping with his own pain of losing his cousin. The phone booth has a disconnected rotary phone popularly called the "wind phone" with over 10,000 visitors coming in to call their deceased loved ones. See video below:


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