All over the world, funerals are held everyday. You probably attended one not long ago!
One sight which is common in every city, every town, and every village, is the funeral procession or burial service.
In my home city of Accra, Ghana, cemeteries get very busy at weekends. And though we would rather not think about it, funerals are a constant reminder that in the midst of life, death is ever present with us.
During memorial services, glowing tribute is paid to the dead (even if they were bad people)! We sob and show our grief with mournful church music in the background.
While attending a funeral at Mankessim (a small town on the south coast of Ghana), I had the opportunity to learn about some of the elaborate rituals performed for the dead. The corpse had several changes of clothing (more like a fashion show)!
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First, it was wrapped in Kente a rich, colourful, hand-woven cloth. Then it was dressed in a suit. Afterwards, in a Freemason’s uniform, etc.
In fact, there was a superfluous show of belated affection as friends and relations fussed over the corpse, stumbling over each other to pay their last respects. A new road leading to the funeral grounds had even been constructed. As you can see, funerals in Africa are BIG events!
Now like this man, many people known to us have died. Expired! Passed away! But…wait a minute!
Where did all these departed souls go? I mean our friends, relations and loved ones who died, “Where did they go?” Think about it. Did they just slip into their graves to “rest in peace”? Or did they vanish mysteriously elsewhere?
What happened to the victims of war in Bosnia, Rwanda and all the other war-torn parts of the world? And what happened to the many AIDS victims who died?
Can anyone tell me where our ancestors are right now?
One thing we know for sure is, they are no longer with us. So where did they go?
Extract From:
“They Went to Hell” by Dag Heward-Mills
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