Are there any religious backing?
is it even right?
why spend so much money?
Yes, it is certain everybody will die, death is sure
but is death really worth celebrating
Lately,I have been thinking if thr's really the need for it.
Why not just drop the dead 6ft underground and thats it! everybody leave for their home.
Instead of disturbing the dead with so much noise.

What are your views?

Left to me, there are many ceremonies that are so worthless of celebrating, celebration such as Burial, Naming Ceremony, Christmas, Birthday, babyshower, bridal shower, Bachelors eve and remembrance.

They don't make no single sense.

It’s waste of money. I cannot lose the person I’m burying and also lose my money at the same time

2horsePOWER:
Are there any religious backing?
is it even right?
why spend so much money?
Yes, it is certain everybody will die, death is sure
but is death really worth celebrating
Lately,I have been thinking if thr's really the need for it.
Why not just drop the dead 6ft underground and thats it! everybody leave for their home.
Instead of disturbing the dead with so much noise.

What are your views?

I believe it’s just part of the African mentality where we celebrate almost anything.
1) we buy car - we celebrate
2) build house - we celebrate
3) give birth - we celebrate
Birthday - we celebrate
It’s just our mentality

aaronson:
Left to me, there are many ceremonies that are so worthless of celebrating, celebration such as Burial, Naming Ceremony, Christmas, Birthday, babyshower, bridal- shower, Bachelors eve and remembrance.

They don't make no single sense.

I agree with you

Nope...As long as you don't spend the money you don't have.
There's no need to overdo cos your trying to meet societal standards,your only fooling yourself...
In this messed up life we all came to,the happiest times are the times we're celebrating something... That's one of the few times we experience a true sense of happiness(Birthdays,New year,National days etc),so I don't see anything wrong with lavish celebrations as long as you've got enough money for it.Cut your coat according to your cloth

Death does not call for celebration, no matter how old the individual maybe before passing away.

My name is Troblem.

I hav been in existnt far b4 d thougth of ur conception,

why do u celebrate some1 lyk usain bolt who ran 4 57 sec and stopped,yet question the ceremony of som1 who died and for the next thousand yrs will decay into Biofuel n become a revenue to the organizd govmt, do nt attach so much importance to thngs of volatile worth,look up things livor mortis,i hope to bring discomfort for i am troblem and i bring hope if u embrace me.

EmperorHarry:
Nope...As long as you don't spend the money you don't have.
There's no need to overdo cos your trying to meet societal standards,your only fooling yourself...
In this messed up life we all came to,the happiest times are the times we're celebrating something... That's one of the few times we experience a true sense of happiness(Birthdays,New year,National days etc),so I don't see anything wrong with lavish celebrations as long as you've got enough money for it.Cut your coat according to your cloth

So, u are in support of "death celebration/ceremonies" i guess

2horsePOWER:

So, u are in support of "death celebration/ceremonies" i guess

Nah I'm indifferent but one thing I've learnt is that we're not all born the same...Everybody with their preferences, the moment you start to accept that fact,life becomes a whole lot easier and your perspective changes..Things that were meant to bother you before won't anymore cos you know that we ain't all the same.
We most have opposites for this world to be balanced...the rich and the poor,the smart ones and the dumb ones,the winners and losers,the people who like school and the ones who don't etc.

2horsePOWER:
Are there any religious backing?
is it even right?
why spend so much money?
Yes, it is certain everybody will die, death is sure
but is death really worth celebrating
Lately,I have been thinking if thr's really the need for it.
Why not just drop the dead 6ft underground and thats it! everybody leave for their home.
Instead of disturbing the dead with so much noise.

What are your views?

It depends on personal choices n tradition.

Absolutely wrong... Most of these ppl will never visit their parents in the village nor call them to know how they are faring, even when on sick bed they will never create time to visit, but they will have enough time to prepare for their burial. Same ppl will spend lavishly on ladies who never sweated for their upbringing. They will spend 10x more money organizing burials for their parents than when they were alive......

Don't forget that what goes around, comes around..... We will all get old someday

WRONG, nonsensical, meaningless and inconsequential.

if you no get money
hide your face

Izz ya money

I would love to bury my folks in grand style if they agree, its no one's business, and d vanity upon vanity crew should mind deir business

Very wrong

what is dere to celebrate biko? When u no its still going to b celebrated pple aren't suppose to be crying wen a person is dead they are suppose to b laughing and rejoicing... Tradition abi culture sha Na dem bring all dis yamayama jare

2horsePOWER:
Are there any religious backing?
is it even right?
why spend so much money?
Yes, it is certain everybody will die, death is sure
but is death really worth celebrating
Lately,I have been thinking if thr's really the need for it.
Why not just drop the dead 6ft underground and thats it! everybody leave for their home.
Instead of disturbing the dead with so much noise.

What are your views?

This is why I love muslims

onatisi:
if you no get money
hide your face

is dat the answer to the question?

onatisi:
if you no get money
hide your face

How much do you have and how much have you physically seen or touch to warrant this statement? I see hungry looking Nigerians struggling to feed yet talk, act and snap pictures like big men.
Mr man or miss woman you haven’t seen wealth yet so shut it and stop the famzy.
Hide your face!! You think it’s 2 Naira yahoo yahoo that makes you wealthy?

I absolutely love it! Celebration of one's lifetime from 0 to 100.

Right and wrong lol

Airtime to Cash Shapperlly

I think its just nonsensical, we are just soo wasteful in this part of the world. And I sometimes see some burial announcements saying stuffs like with gratitude to God for a life well spent, what the fvck does that even mean sef?
The other one that irritates is the R.I.P who many of us don't even sit down to weigh the meaning. Whoever told you the fellow is gonna rest in peace? Only God determines that, not our wishful wishes.
Anyways, as for me when I am gone, I would have all my useful organs harvested for scientific research and the rest of it cremated.
Zero ceremonies.

Absolutely wrong! I despise it with passion

In this part of world,we pay so much respects to the deads..at least,its better than worshipping a dead jew or one arabian bastard that made a living by raiding caravans..

aaronson:
Left to me, there are many ceremonies that are so worthless of celebrating, celebration such as Burial, Naming Ceremony, Christmas, Birthday, babyshower, bridal shower, Bachelors eve and remembrance.

They don't make no single sense.

who be this?
Are u human?

martineverest:
is dat the answer to the question?

yes

it's a stupid celebration.
if only one invested such on the person why he/she is alive, the story might have changed.

As for me,that is the last respect i can pay to my love ones especially my father nd mother,for what they hv don for me...as lng as i gat the cash,believe u me,i will gv this two individuals a grand burial that will be remembered for ages..bt like my dad alway said...."dont ever borrow money for my burial when i'm death".....may the good lord gv me cash to carry out my plan in Jesus name Amen

Not necessary. Respect and show love to the living abeg.
Pls who really do we spend lavishly for the dead or for our pride

Left to me, it is not proper. I know of an old woman in where I served, this woman relied on the people around before she could eat... she was always in tattered cloth suggesting of the absence of care from any children... One man told me all the woman's children were not around but in somewhere else struggling to make living. I asked the man, should been an hustler be an excuse to take care of one's mother ?

Behold, not long this woman died, the woman was buried in a semi-elaborate ceremony. Two cows was killed, beans cake was on rampage and some other foods.

Now the question is where did the money to float such an elaborate ceremony come out.

Why not using the money to give the woman a beffiting living when she was alive instead of beffiting burial...

He get some things wey we Africans they do wey no make sense at all...

my Granny said that d money dat we r goin to use to burial her we shud giv her now dat she is alive nd not spend it on her burial.....