This is all we know; spend more money on the dead than on the living.
One of my friend’s Aunties died in London a few months ago and when this woman was alive, she was taken care of by the government–she was on social welfare.
Her family was not giving her any big money each month, she was close to broke most times.
And then when she died: her family raised via a loan 14 thousand pounds, to take her to Ghana to be buried there.
Apparently, she said she never wanted to be buried in London. That’s an expensive wish but she did not leave even 100 pounds in her account to get this accomplished.
She died leaving behind an expensive wish, that others had to fulfil…
If you are a resident abroad and wants to be buried in Ghana when you die, why not make financial provisions for that?
And then there’s this double funeral practice. Ghanaians will have a funeral in Ghana for the dead and a few weeks later, hold another funeral, all huge, in London or Amsterdam for the same person.
If you see the sort of condition in which the parents of some people are living in, you would collapse on your face. But let a parent die, and the house which has not been painted since the palaeolithic era will be painted–and the dead will wear expensive gold that he or she never wore when alive.
Our people love dead bodies than those with breath in them, and our generation is no different.
Interestingly, white people are not so much interested into the dead–they mostly live great lives and when they die, they mostly make sure that they have policies or savings in place to care for their own funeral cost.
In Ghana, a lot of people die and leave their families nothing–except debt! And the families go ahead to borrow money to “throw big” funerals–and the cycle of poverty continues.
I always tell my mother, if you die, I wouldn’t spend any money buying an expensive coffin or stage an expensive funeral or whatever. While you are alive, I will give you all I can, so expect little to nothing, thereafter.
If you live some money in your account, I will argue that we should use it on those alive–and throw you somewhere.
–Chris-Vincent Agyapong

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