These can be horribly unfair. And yet spectacularly winning. Even if she was a lout. My absolute favorite of these modern obituaries was written about Douglas Legler, a North Dakotan who left us last year. It was. Become a Saturday Evening Post member and enjoy unlimited access. Subscribe now. And exactly how many coffins do we need to open until we get to him or her?!
This is an easy way to build suspense and all the giggles that come with it! Repeat until everyone feels like stopping! And who knows? Maybe that moment never comes and this is your life now! Why walk slowly with a heavy heart when you can glide awkwardly with no real grasp on where the brakes are or how to use them? A football? Maybe a plane? I have a hard time picking an object that sums up my life, but some people have the perfect idea in mind. That is where Paa Joe from the Ga tribe in coastal Ghana comes in.
Unlike modern Americans, people in Ghana celebrate death and commonly commemorate it with elaborate and unique coffins. The living aim to honor their dead with coffins that represent their legacy. Paa Joe, after almost five decades in the business, now works with his son to handcraft these highly sought after caskets.
His son explains that their coffins. Ghanian families and surrounding community members place much value on showcasing the part that contemporary African art plays life and death. They strongly believe that the dead must be buried in something that represents the role they played while alive, in order to remember where they come from and what they have left behind as they move into the afterlife. He made arrangements to lay in the same cemetery as Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Lee.
We also talked about each one of his sons having their own bottle of his favorite liquor we ended up each taking one drink, not one bottle. We also had enough Reeses candy for an entire country, the perfect send off just as he would have wanted. So, have you ever thought about your funeral? Would you want a party or a more traditional service?
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