FUNERALS TURNING INTO BIG-TIME PARTIES.

"...................... is a ceremony that takes place after someone dies, usually including a religious ceremony and the formal process of taking the body to the place where, it is buried or cremated" denotes the definition of Funeral, according to the Macmillan English Dictionary. Taking our minds to the bible in John 11:32-36 when Mary fell at Jesus' feet crying, the Jews crying as well, then Jesus wept over the death of Lazarus. Jesus knew he could possibly reincarnate him, yet he cried. Why did he do that? This should be a sign enough to let us know that death is a time to mourn. Despite this, modern funerals has turned merry making.

Come to the funeral grounds especially on Sunday evenings around 18:00 GMT, then you would testify for yourselves, ladies' majestical catwalking towards the funeral grounds. Drinks and other edible packs would be offloaded from vehicles unendingly, babeque (khebab) cuisines would also take vantage points making business. There people sit in groups and having cordial relations just like "an old school reunion".

It's very emphatic when it comes to picking of funeral cloth. Families or relatives of the deceased would look through town to get expensive cloth to suit the funeral, which is sometimes done to spite their adversaries. Frankly speaking, this is common among the coastal dwellers.
Women purchase these expensive cloths, take it to expert tailoring services in order to curve best their intended style. Special care is also taken to select other items and cosmetics to suite their preference. Stuffed iced-chest with drinks are carried along.

Where are these colossals amounts gained, that it's easily cast among pigs to trample upon?

Maybe, these extravagant stuffs eject those sums.

Ladies, please spare me, if I seem to be lashing you. It's just that "Open Rebuke is Better than Secret Love". Ladies, your emotional features are needed most to console the bereaved family. Instead, these hubris yell; "we dress to kill, afterall we did not kill the person".

The loud systems used in playing music at these "gbonyo parties" tend to attract uninvited persons we locally call "oblitey agbo". These vagabonds go round the funeral scene pretending to be dancing while looking for chances to bolt away some valuable items. Even mineral bottles are not spared.
These and others would only cause unnecessary costs to the funeral organizers.

I believe, its only our religious leaders that can preach doctrines to salvage this social canker whose wings are spreading so fast.

_Merci Beaucoup_
   Felix Acquaye