WHY SOME PEOPLE TALK GOOD OF THE DEAD by Chukwubike OC

WHY SOME PEOPLE TALK GOOD OF THE DEAD;

The human being (especially in some cultures as in Africa) is  very religious and believe in the existence of *SPIRITS*, therefore when a  person dies or passes over to another state or journey  most people  believe  he has joined the spirits and has  acquired all the powers attributed  to spirits  who are also believed with the Gods govern the living .

• This per se makes us afraid of attracting their wrath and fury  if  we ever say bad of them or  refer to any bad  they did while being with the living. This affects  our presentations and funeral orations to tend to positive things and moments of the dead.
• On another instant,  some people would just want to appear polite to the family of the dead therefore saying  all nice things they know, imagine and sometimes absolute (positive)lies about the dead person. Sometime these are   to curry favour.
• The third group just go with the trend. They repeat in other-words, ’copy and paste’ what others just said  and continue  with their food, drinks and other entertainments. when served. 

*Personal notes*

Some of us who believe that a person  while alive is made up of the body and spirit  may not be afraid  to speak about the dead  as we would have spoken when he was alive because he just dropped the body and only  the spirit we knew all the while  has just continued the course. In simple words ‘if I wasn’t afraid of  him when he was in two states why should I be afraid  of  him now he is in only one state?

People like this in some cases fall or incline  a bit towards  the second category also as not to aggravate the pains of the  mourners   by saying  ‘negativities’ of the dead person.

Written by 

Charles.O Chukwubike

Charlie.mbc@gmail.com