Why be buried in a boring coffin, when you can get handmade coffins that look like a fish , lobster, snake, bird, shoe, beer bottle, even a cigarette?
For the Ga tribe in coastal Ghana,
funerals are a time of mourning, but also of celebration. The Ga people believe that when their loved ones die, they move on into another life — and the Ga make sure they do so in style. They honor their dead with brightly colored coffins that celebrate the way they lived.
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The coffins are designed to represent an aspect of the dead person’s life — such as a car if they were a driver, a fish if their livelihood was the sea — or a sewing machine for a seamstress. They might also symbolize a vice — such as a bottle of beer or a cigarette.
Die Saerge werden so entworfen um auch das Leben der toten Person darzustellen . Z.B. einen LKW Fahrer , Fischer oder eine Naeherin . Oder auch den "Lebemann" ,mit einer Flasche Bier oder einer Zigarette .
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you can order your own coffin. Wood-carved, painted and in every form you like. If you spent your life, working as a fisherman, you can get buried in a seaworthy 2 m boat model (including crew). People who only dreamt of having an own car get buried buried in a wooden Mercedes-Benz. The customers pay between 500 and 1000 $ for such examples of one-way art,which will leave a lasting impression on the day of their funeral. Until this day comes, the coffins are stored in the owners house-dreams of a future which will come true in the beyond ...
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Funeral: Most productive industry in Ghana?
Akosombo (ER), July 8, GNA - The Minister of Health, Major (rtd) Courage Quashigah, has expressed concern over what he called a national craze for burial and funeral festivities, wondering why such occasions were gradually emerging as the "most productive industry" in the country.
Major Quashigah said it was unfathomable for Ghanaians to adopt the funerals fashion and the high cost associated with it, whereas trend in other countries were how to roll back mortality figures.
He said instead of joining a campaign to reduce death rates, especially those resulting from motor accidents, there was rather a national thirst for funerals, thus boosting the price of coffins and funeral fabrics.
Addressing District Directors of Health Services on the new health paradigm shift at Akosombo in the Eastern Region on Friday, Major Quashigah charged them to make funerals a less lucrative venture by helping in reducing mortality figures, which were now averaging 57 years for adults and 68 per 1000 births for infants.
Major Quashigah said there was the need to arouse national conscience against funerals and help reduce the allure for fabrics, extolling the virtues of death and the quest to be the best coffin makers in the world.
He said while the organization of costly funerals benefited a few service providers, it nonetheless sapped the nation of huge sums of money.
The Health Minister identified ignorance as being at the heart of the new craze and urged Ghanaians to collectively help to stem it.
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GNA
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