Whenever someone gave up the ghost, we are always in haste to take our precious times to prepared for something that cannot benefits the society. Our culture has made us to understand that preparing for burial is more important than investing in human being.
It is noted that the best treatment you can give anybody on this earth is to look after his well being and not after he or she might have ultimately submitted his file to the spiritual world.
In our society, you hardly see relatives sending his/her close connection or relatives to school, even though there are, they are estimated to be 5 out of thousands.
Humanitarian investment is one of the investment human being can think of and be promoted in all our activities. Reason been that, if you invest in Mr. A, he or she would extend it to another set or generation of people. But, if you limit your blessings and fortune to your immediate background, the moment your cease breath, you die with your wealth and which is of no value to mankind.
Today, many people want to avert shame and mockery by giving their relatives a befitting burial. Funny enough, when the deceased was alive, they could not put a call through to establish the wellness and financial status of their relatives. If you could not provide befitting life for your relative, why the hypocritical befitting burial?
You should be informed that, if you cannot support, invest and help the life to grow, please, do not waste your money by investing in burial ceremonies. Who are you celebrating then, is it me or yourself?
Every human deserve better treatment on this earth, instead of taxing yourself to make burial memorable, make life memorable and remarkable, for the life blemished will forever remain grateful. Many friends and purported sympathizers attending the burial are only coming to count how many bags of rice cooked at the event. The many cows you killed. You know what, they only come to establish the degree of the ceremony for future reference and arguments and not for condolences.
If we continue to live this way, the society cannot move forward. There is need to change our faculty of reasoning from this self-cultured practices and embrace collectivism which can empower and create sense of belonging for our relatives.
Death wins every time, it doesn’t need our respect. It robs us of our self-esteem, our individuality. We spend our lives denying that we’re mere mammals crawling about the earth, by imbuing ourselves with cultural value. We develop tastes, opinions, preferences and passions, we produce art and name buildings and children and stars after ourselves, we have stories and narratives.
When we die, we’re demoted. We become like everyone who ever died, every beast, every insect, every perished germ. This is why we don’t speak ill of the dead; it’s kicking them while they’re six feet down. Why are we spending for something that always win the war against us?
When somebody is dead, we should know that he/she is gone forever. No amount of money you spend during the burial will revive him again. You should channel the money meant for flamboyant burial ceremony to taking care of lives or better take care of the body while he was alive.
– Asiya Iganya Muhammed writes from Ankpa, Kogi State.
