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It's absurd to me.

Tenses:
In the house of mourning people mourn not feast. Don't misinterprete the bible.

In the case of someone who died in good old age and they are mourning and celebrating at the same time won't people eat. Death at gold old age is mourning and a celebration of life. I won't advocate eating at an untimely death(I don't even support such cooking). But anything in good old age is both mourning and feasting
So eat!

DanOkonkwo:
This is my opinion regarding this matter,going to eat at funerals is not appropriate. A place of funeral is not a place of celebration or feasting but a place of solemnity but unfortunately some persons or most cultures has made it a must that food of assorted kinds must be prepared and people MUST eat.
I think that this part of our culture must be looked into, because I cannot imagine a family that is struggling to make ends meet still mandated to go through hell to provide a big burial where food must be cooked and served, just to bury a loved one.
There are even some that even go about in the community looking for funerals ceremony just to find where to eat and even go with extra.
Well if a man has the money to spend lavishly or call the community to feast in a burial, it's up to him but this should not be a rule.

What do you think?

I also think e get as e be - the feasting and all. But, hey, who am I to make the rules on these things?

Even if the person died old, do you even know the pain they pass through before the soul leaves the body? That's enough reason to be sober.

Why not suspect the eating and merry til the time for naming, birthday and other joyful moments.

Wealthoptulent:
if ur own for kpai, ma je AKARA oo sho GBO, we all have reason to EAT at FUNERALS

I GO LIE for u, BROTHER MAN!

some dey even eat burial rice with banana

Wrong or Right , people will eat at yours !

eepeepook:
Above 80 years is a celebration of life. Eat, drink and merry as much as possible. If e easy, reach the age first. Anything under is a solemn occasion. Must you starve attendees because somebody died young? Funerals should be like weddings — do according to your pocket.

All these celebration of life whatever na nonsense. A funeral should be a place of solemnity a place where people should think about the vanity of life and the essence of living life with purpose and doing good deeds. It doesn't matter how old the deceased is even if he is 500 years it does not call for merriment. This is why I love the Muslims they don't have time for all these nonsense.

I thought as much at some point, but when you realize the distance people had to travel to attend the funeral it makes sense to feed them when they come. Some travel for as much as 4 to 8 hours to attend the funeral.
The challenge is that some people do things to the extreme especially the villagers who make huge demands on the family of the departed. Village people are wicked!!!

Yemmysworld91:
In the case of someone who died in good old age and they are mourning and celebrating at the same time won't people eat. Death at gold old age is mourning and a celebration of life. I won't advocate eating at an untimely death(I don't even support such cooking). But anything in good old age is both mourning and feasting
So eat!

In biblical isreal, people don't eat nor drink while carry out the burial rites, even if the deade person is 1,000 years old.

It's a gathering of people who came to offer comfort... Light refreshment is not bad; it's actually courtesy.

Tenses:
In biblical isreal, people don't eat nor drink while carry out the burial rites, even if the deade person is 1,000 years old.

So will African Christians go to hell for eating during the funerals of the elderly ones?
They see it as a celebration of life.

If you have d money, you can celebrate it and if you do not have the money, you can do it lowkey

Wrong. Eating at funerals is mocking the dead.

Some areas in my Igbo land even sell landed property to cook for funeral attendants. Abhorrent.

Rich man pikin go think say, na bad thing not to eat for burial
Poor man pikin go think say na bad thing to eat for burial


Rich man pikin call am celebration of life
Poor man pikin call tradition trash, and waste of money

Which ever way try old and make name for your family and your self make dem burial u like fowl

Who told you that? Poor man pikin no dey joke with burial whether to eat awoof food as uninvited guest or for fundraising as omolooku. Na win-win for poor man pikin and he dey even monitor news for where it's happening next. I think the topic is deeper than it appears on the surface

Leepeak:
Rich man pikin go think say, na bad thing not to eat for burial
Poor man pikin go think say na bad thing to eat for burial


Rich man pikin call am celebration of life
Poor man pikin call tradition trash, and waste of money

Which ever way try old and make name for your family and your self make dem burial u like fowl

Maybe this advise or opinion would have been tenable when Jonathan was still in power.

DanOkonkwo:
This is my opinion regarding this matter,going to eat at funerals is not appropriate. A place of funeral is not a place of celebration or feasting but a place of solemnity but unfortunately some persons or most cultures has made it a must that food of assorted kinds must be prepared and people MUST eat.
I think that this part of our culture must be looked into, because I cannot imagine a family that is struggling to make ends meet still mandated to go through hell to provide a big burial where food must be cooked and served, just to bury a loved one.
There are even some that even go about in the community looking for funerals ceremony just to find where to eat and even go with extra.
Well if a man has the money to spend lavishly or call the community to feast in a burial, it's up to him but this should not be a rule.

What do you think?

It should be optional especially for a struggling family but some culture will still force them to borrow or postpone the burial ceremony. Its a show off thing now in Igbo land, people kill several cows so that they will be held in high esteem for giving their loved ones "a befiiting burial". its okay if one is wealthy but should be optional for the poor, though no one will agree they are poor.

2RightHands1Coc:
I don't eat at funerals , I personally see it as a violation

My 3 cents

THAT IS BECAUSE OF COLONIAL INFLUENCE ON YOU.

Precolonial Africans and African Spirituality do NOT recognise death as the End of life, but as a Return home to the Land of the Ancestors.

What you people now call "heaven".

WHEN YOU DIE, YOU REMAIN FULLY ALIVE AND AWARE, but are invisible in this dimension.

In THAT dimension, you're physically visible to those there as you are here, and can communicate via telepathy and speech.

In THAT dimension, you create anything you want simply by Thinking of it.

If you want an entire golden city with you alone inside, owning it, FIAM... It appears.

You want a mansion that sits up in the sky, you get one. THERE ARE SAID TO BE MANY HOUSES LIKE THAT THERE.

If you want to appear to others as a young boy of 5, immediately you transform to that. An old man with a walking stick? Instantly. A beautiful princess of 25? No wahala.

You want to visit another city or realm? You can fly there, walk, run, or simply decide on instant transfer, and you're there immediately.

It is when you return Home that you will realise that the material wealth you chase here is absolutely Nothing. ANYTHING you want, you create by Thought.

THESE ARE FACTS THAT PREDATE YOUR FAKE IMPORTED RELIGIONS BY OVER 200,000 YEARS.

THOSE FAKE RELIGIONS THAT TELL YOU YOU NEED TO "believe in" some stupid white "saviour" or Arab "saviour" in order to return Home.

That tell you "R.I.P." WHEN IN FACT YOU ARE RETURNING Back TO FULL LIFE AND ACTIVITY AS AN IMMORTAL, POWERFUL SOUL.

A GOD, MORE OR LESS.

THAT is why Africans eat and drink at funerals.

BECAUSE THEY KNOW THESE TRUTHS THAT YOUR WHITE MAN DOESN'T KNOW.

Actually the white man is NOW STARTING TO LEARN THIS TRUTH, via the accounts of NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCERS. People clinically dead who are revived, and recount their experiences in their Out-of-Body states.

MAJORITY OF THEM BEGGED NOT TO BE SENT BACK HERE, DUE TO THE CONDITIONS OF ABSOLUTE JOY, BEAUTY, UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, AND PERFECTION THEY EXPERIENCED, but were told it was "not yet their time", and they had more work to do on Earth.

Next thing, they find themselves back in their bodies on the hospital bed.

So the Truth is out there!

Hungry never catch am

Yemmysworld91:
So will African Christians go to hell for eating during the funerals of the elderly ones?
They see it as a celebration of life.

Who gives a fuccck about hell.

I am talking about doing the right thing and it takes common sense to do the right thing.

My dad was a deeper life member. He specifically told use no poster, feasting on his burial day.

All we did was go get this corpse, his pastor conducted the sermon and everybody goes home. Meanwhile alot of who's who in my state showed up.

We already anticipate some drama, so we arrange for some policemen to provide security.

Come and see the look on the villagers faces.

Was celebration of life not suppose to be joyous with happy faces? Why then is anger everywhere?

Remove feasting during burials and deaths in Africa will reduce by 70%.

In my place, feasting is compulsory and I love it.

But the way it's done? The deceased family may never have to contribute a dime. The neighbours and everyone else in the community comes with one food item or another.

DanOkonkwo:
This is my opinion regarding this matter,going to eat at funerals is not appropriate. A place of funeral is not a place of celebration or feasting but a place of solemnity but unfortunately some persons or most cultures has made it a must that food of assorted kinds must be prepared and people MUST eat.
I think that this part of our culture must be looked into, because I cannot imagine a family that is struggling to make ends meet still mandated to go through hell to provide a big burial where food must be cooked and served, just to bury a loved one.
There are even some that even go about in the community looking for funerals ceremony just to find where to eat and even go with extra.
Well if a man has the money to spend lavishly or call the community to feast in a burial, it's up to him but this should not be a rule.
What do you think?

Oga,
Rest, I take God beg you!
Despite the Economy seismic vibrations,Nigerians and most African Cultures do not value throwing -away - their loved 🔂,just like that!
Besides-Cultura affiliations are so nitty here,
For example, even Small Age Death - are being Celebrated in some Middle Belt,which is Strange to many From Other Part of Nigeria but they enjoyed it !

Tenses:
Who gives a fuccck about hell.

I am talking about doing the right thing and it takes common sense to do the right thing.

My dad was a deeper life member. He specifically told use no poster, feasting on his burial day.

All we did was go get this corpse, his pastor conducted the sermon and everybody goes home. Meanwhile alot of who's who in my state showed up.

We already anticipate some drama, so we arrange for some policemen to provide security.

Come and see the look on the villagers faces.

Was celebration of life not suppose to be joyous with happy faces? Why then is anger everywhere?

Remove feasting during burials and deaths in Africa will reduce by 70%.

In Africa, they've kinda made it a way of life. I understand your standpoint but I still see it as nothing.

But I disagree with this "Remove feasting during burials and deaths in Africa will reduce by 70%".

Feasting during burials is majorly for those who die in good old age. I don't know how not feasting during burials will stop people from dying in old age.

Bury your loved ones in peace and move on.Life is for the living and there are much to do with the capital you have.Spend your money o n yourself than on funeral activities.It is sad that people go for a loan just for a funeral.A few months ago a family sold their own son in Lagos, just to have money for their late mother's funeral.l know of someone that committed suicide because he couldn't afford money to give his late mum a befitting burial.Some would say nobody forced anyone to spend money;easy to say, but the societal pressure we observe everywhere in our so called cultures and traditions,propels people to do the unthinkable or what they never planned to do.l think state governments must start passing laws to have limits on how much people should spend on funerals.

DanOkonkwo:
This is my opinion regarding this matter,going to eat at funerals is not appropriate. A place of funeral is not a place of celebration or feasting but a place of solemnity but unfortunately some persons or most cultures has made it a must that food of assorted kinds must be prepared and people MUST eat.
I think that this part of our culture must be looked into, because I cannot imagine a family that is struggling to make ends meet still mandated to go through hell to provide a big burial where food must be cooked and served, just to bury a loved one.
There are even some that even go about in the community looking for funerals ceremony just to find where to eat and even go with extra.
Well if a man has the money to spend lavishly or call the community to feast in a burial, it's up to him but this should not be a rule.

What do you think?

who in the first place made it a rule?

Omo this thing long , no long thing

Kushites:
THAT IS BECAUSE OF COLONIAL INFLUENCE ON YOU.

Precolonial Africans and African Spirituality do NOT recognise death as the End of life, but as a Return home to the Land of the Ancestors.

What you people now call "heaven".

WHEN YOU DIE, YOU REMAIN FULLY ALIVE AND AWARE, but are invisible in this dimension.

In THAT dimension, you're physically visible to those there as you are here, and can communicate via telepathy and speech.

In THAT dimension, you create anything you want simply by Thinking of it.

If you want an entire golden city with you alone inside, owning it, FIAM... It appears.

You want a mansion that sits up in the sky, you get one. THERE ARE SAID TO BE MANY HOUSES LIKE THAT THERE.

If you want to appear to others as a young boy of 5, immediately you transform to that. An old man with a walking stick? Instantly. A beautiful princess of 25? No wahala.

You want to visit another city or realm? You can fly there, walk, run, or simply decide on instant transfer, and you're there immediately.

It is when you return Home that you will realise that the material wealth you chase here is absolutely Nothing. ANYTHING you want, you create by Thought.

THESE ARE FACTS THAT PREDATE YOUR FAKE IMPORTED RELIGIONS BY OVER 200,000 YEARS.

THOSE FAKE RELIGIONS THAT TELL YOU YOU NEED TO "believe in" some stupid white "saviour" or Arab "saviour" in order to return Home.

That tell you "R.I.P." WHEN IN FACT YOU ARE RETURNING Back TO FULL LIFE AND ACTIVITY AS AN IMMORTAL, POWERFUL SOUL.

A GOD, MORE OR LESS.

THAT is why Africans eat and drink at funerals.

BECAUSE THEY KNOW THESE TRUTHS THAT YOUR WHITE MAN DOESN'T KNOW.

Actually the white man is NOW STARTING TO LEARN THIS TRUTH, via the accounts of NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCERS. People clinically dead who are revived, and recount their experiences in their Out-of-Body states.

MAJORITY OF THEM BEGGED NOT TO BE SENT BACK HERE, DUE TO THE CONDITIONS OF ABSOLUTE JOY, BEAUTY, UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, AND PERFECTION THEY EXPERIENCED, but were told it was "not yet their time", and they had more work to do on Earth.

Next thing, they find themselves back in their bodies on the hospital bed.

So the Truth is out there!

Took time to read what you wrote , you made sense

Kushites:
THAT IS BECAUSE OF COLONIAL INFLUENCE ON YOU.

Precolonial Africans and African Spirituality do NOT recognise death as the End of life, but as a Return home to the Land of the Ancestors.

What you people now call "heaven".

WHEN YOU DIE, YOU REMAIN FULLY ALIVE AND AWARE, but are invisible in this dimension.

In THAT dimension, you're physically visible to those there as you are here, and can communicate via telepathy and speech.

In THAT dimension, you create anything you want simply by Thinking of it.

If you want an entire golden city with you alone inside, owning it, FIAM... It appears.

You want a mansion that sits up in the sky, you get one. THERE ARE SAID TO BE MANY HOUSES LIKE THAT THERE.

If you want to appear to others as a young boy of 5, immediately you transform to that. An old man with a walking stick? Instantly. A beautiful princess of 25? No wahala.

You want to visit another city or realm? You can fly there, walk, run, or simply decide on instant transfer, and you're there immediately.

It is when you return Home that you will realise that the material wealth you chase here is absolutely Nothing. ANYTHING you want, you create by Thought.

THESE ARE FACTS THAT PREDATE YOUR FAKE IMPORTED RELIGIONS BY OVER 200,000 YEARS.

THOSE FAKE RELIGIONS THAT TELL YOU YOU NEED TO "believe in" some stupid white "saviour" or Arab "saviour" in order to return Home.

That tell you "R.I.P." WHEN IN FACT YOU ARE RETURNING Back TO FULL LIFE AND ACTIVITY AS AN IMMORTAL, POWERFUL SOUL.

A GOD, MORE OR LESS.

THAT is why Africans eat and drink at funerals.

BECAUSE THEY KNOW THESE TRUTHS THAT YOUR WHITE MAN DOESN'T KNOW.

Actually the white man is NOW STARTING TO LEARN THIS TRUTH, via the accounts of NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCERS. People clinically dead who are revived, and recount their experiences in their Out-of-Body states.

MAJORITY OF THEM BEGGED NOT TO BE SENT BACK HERE, DUE TO THE CONDITIONS OF ABSOLUTE JOY, BEAUTY, UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, AND PERFECTION THEY EXPERIENCED, but were told it was "not yet their time", and they had more work to do on Earth.

Next thing, they find themselves back in their bodies on the hospital bed.

So the Truth is out there!

As a matter of fact, there's nothing wrong eating at the funeral.But let it be known to you that as you chop somebody's own,somebody will chop your own.How can you invite people to your father's or mother's funeral without giving them food? Thats wickedness! However, teenage and toddler death are no no. Many years ago,l was living in kano then,a family lost their baby,lo and behold, serious party was organized and music was playing and people were drinking and dancing. What a great taboo and abomination in my culture. When asked why? They said it was done so that the baby will no longer come back again to the family as it was deemed to be ogbanje girl.

DanOkonkwo:
This is my opinion regarding this matter,going to eat at funerals is not appropriate. A place of funeral is not a place of celebration or feasting but a place of solemnity but unfortunately some persons or most cultures has made it a must that food of assorted kinds must be prepared and people MUST eat.
I think that this part of our culture must be looked into, because I cannot imagine a family that is struggling to make ends meet still mandated to go through hell to provide a big burial where food must be cooked and served, just to bury a loved one.
There are even some that even go about in the community looking for funerals ceremony just to find where to eat and even go with extra.
Well if a man has the money to spend lavishly or call the community to feast in a burial, it's up to him but this should not be a rule.

What do you think?

Na this thing make oyibo people better pass us, reasoning!! They use sense to make laws. Dem no dey chop food for burial for their land. We no even know who start the kain culture of eating at burials. Jesus himself said let the dead bury their own dead.

The dead should be honored at their passing. Not meriment

If you see the suffering someone goes through at 96 - 104, you will celebrate when the person finally departs. At that age, the person’s life is complete. I’ve never seen a family wish their 100 year old grandmother lived an extra ten years. To see what again? The human body becomes a prison when too old to function.

dermmy:
All these celebration of life whatever na nonsense. A funeral should be a place of solemnity a place where people should think about the vanity of life and the essence of living life with purpose and doing good deeds. It doesn't matter how old the deceased is even if he is 500 years it does not call for merriment. This is why I love the Muslims they don't have time for all these nonsense.

He is not the only one