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l.y
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Re:Are expensive funerals necessary
infact you people have said all but i must stress it.
it is stupid to the highest order.it makes one want to shade tears for the less privileged
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initiate
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burial is not only for the dead but for the living. relatives left behind have a right to celebrate the life of their dead anyway they want and it is not your right to judge them. it is just the same way parents celebrate the wedding or graduation of their children the way they want. inasmuch as they do not come to you to ask for money to do the burial then leave them to do it the way they want.
although the man is dead and gone, the family still decides to celebrate that he came into the world.
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lucabrasi (m)
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i think you v got it in one,plus its much more than just a funeral as its also depp seated cultural activity which actually brings long lost families together and i think its the essense of the traditional african family, what im against is people that cannot afford an elaborate funeral borrowing money and going to desperate lenghts to do so, of all the parties in nigeria its only my paternal grand mum and maternal grand pa s funerals that ill say was the party i had the most fun at even tho i was young then
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nightnurse (f)
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u cld celebrate them while they are still alive not when they are dead because at death they are unaware of everything we do. celebrate their birthdays if need be, celebrating burial in an expensive way is wrong, its a sin cause u could use the money to help the needy among us.
If i may ask, how do you all think God our creator feels about our extravagant life style when we have alot of people to help?
I'm not judging anyone but trying to get us to do more reasonable things with our money rather than wasting it showing off to others, it makes no sense at all.
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lucabrasi (m)
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im guessing you r pointing at a sort of western way of doing things,but the real african child always honour elders and respect elders so they are always taken care of while alive,the expensive burial is not just to celebrate them in death but to celebrate a sort of retirement from this world, if you get a new job you celebrate and when you're retired you celebrate, same as when we come into this world we celebrate the new born,its the same thing celebrating the departed in most cases as well it gives the bereaved some sense of joy knowing people feel that way about the departed
helping the less priviledged is an individual thing and there are a lot of people who do not waste money and are good great ones and christians who however do not help the less well off and its not every one that has an elaborate n expensive burial thats showing off
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