Please, I’m curious and I want to ask: why do we celebrate burials? My grandma died this month and my mom and her siblings have been talking about how they want to celebrate it. They already picked a date (the first week of September). The problem now is they shared N400k each to the children for the mortuary, coffin, and some other stuff. So my dad told my mom to just pay the money and not attend the burial. He said, what if she’s not in Nigeria, that he can’t pay N400k and still be planning to buy a cow and the likes, since she doesn’t even know a lot of people in the village (Benin Republic), and she has been in Lagos even before she got married.
He said there’s no need to cook even if she wants to attend the burial because my brother already gained admission into uni and the bills are still there. I just finished NYSC and I’m still looking for a job, so there’s no support from us, her kids. But my mom is still saying why won’t she cook and all. My own question is, why do we celebrate burials more than birthdays? I don’t think my grandma’s children have ever celebrated her when she was alive, so why now that she has died?
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