By Ogilisi Igbo (Chief Rommy Ezeonwuka)
What our new generation are doing with dead bodies must stop. Our forefathers has never ever kept dead body more than 24 hours.
Other Specific religious practices:
1. Islam: Burial within 24 hours, as soon as possible after death.
2. Judaism: Burial within 24 hours, no mortuary.
3. Hinduism: Cremation within 24 hours, no mortuary.
4. Christianity: No specific time frame, which compels the Christians to mingle with corpses against the law of God in the Book of Numbers, Chapter 19:vs 11-23.
What unburied body does is to generate zombies which possesses the youth unto atrocities going on today in Igbo land and Nigeria as a whole.
What immediate burial of the dead does are as follows:
1. Respect for the deceased: Quick burial or cremation shows respect for the deceased and their journey to the afterlife.
2. Prevention of desecration: Immediate disposal prevents desecration or disrespectful handling of the body.
3. The soul’s journey to the afterlife is facilitated by immediate swift burial or cremation.
Our Tradition: Igbos have traditionally practiced immediate burial, passing down the custom through generations before newest religion started mingling with corpses in the church.
Other practical reasons to bury dead body immediately:
1. Hygiene: Immediate disposal prevents decay, reducing health risks and unpleasant odors.
2. Emotional closure: Quick burial or cremation can provide emotional closure for the grieving family, allowing them to begin the healing process.
3. Logistical simplicity: Immediate disposal simplifies funeral arrangements, reducing logistical complexities.
What Igbos are suffering today is when an evil practice, is allowed to stay long, it becomes a culture.
The senseless idea that a dead body must be seen by people that are not around or be kept for burial ceremony with the body which prompt deposition into mortuary or carrying the body to the church contravene the law and chases the Angels away. Let me warn Ndi-Igbo – Angels do not dwell where corpses are littered.
Without evacuation of millions of dead unburied corpses in various mortuaries in Igbo land, time is coming when zombies shall chase away real human beings and ghost beings shall take over Igbo land. Most voodoo doctors and pastors are agents of zombies and many people are already turned into vultures. Let me advise those that are still human beings that intend to go to heaven to write a will about what to do with their bodies even though some livings denies obedient to honor the will of the dead.
God did not create and specify any geographical place as hell. But Christianity has nurtured mortuaries as geographical hell where to keep the body to trap and punish the soul of the dead.
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