City Mortuary to Set Up a Private Wing for Rich Kenyans

The dead are alredy gone.Call it what you may. It comes down to monetizing funerals.Whether its good or bad you make the call.
My point is that the dead does not care if you burn him or her. Respect for the dead ,and agood send off should not be measured by how ostentacious, expensive and pageantry the funeral is.
In my opinion,less expensive the better so that more would go to the living.When someone pledges to pay school fees for the kids of the departed to me,that is respect beyond writing a check for $1000,or buying acoffin for $ 10K...Sincere,honest and well spoken, heartfelt words that go beyond eulogizing at a funeral are priceless.But the deceased should have earned them.To call someone good when they were, amenace,and caused terror is disingenuous,and pretentious...
Honestly,we as asociety,and especially people from western Kenya- We need to consciously rethink about how we should be sending off our departed family members. We spend too much on funerals that are soon forgotten.Shouldn't our forcus be on something more tangible?
As for me I have declared that my "useless body" will do some good in the SCIENCE department.I guess a scientific send off-you could say.My two cents.

Speak for yourself and let people remember their loved ones in which ever method they see fit.Not all lavish funerals require “mchango”from hustlers some wealthy folk can afford and do preplan their funerals others it is peanuts to them so let them be not like those left behind put money to good use.If the money was theirs and not borrowed from you let the bereaved celebrate their folk “their way” not everything is about money.

So well stated, Maxiley!! In fact, I advised my family to be cremated. Its unfortunate many spend more on funerals for the dead person why they never cared when this person was alive on the premise of ‘befitting sendoff’, total nonsense! If its raining funds to offset hospital bills or probably temporarily cushion kids left behind with college or school tuition, may be. But even fundraising to clear personal debts the bereaved incurred in their lives undertakings or for taking care of widows or widowers and other relatives is just taking advantage of others. Waiting for two weeks plus to bury someone with no other reason but just to raise funds to benefit from the death is just ridiculous!

No matter how “rich” they thought they are, they are as dead as the “poor” guy in the next room and equally freezing their dead balls!!! Just the morgue milking cash out of the gullible grieving families!!!

Depression(coursed by sibling rivalry and cheating wife) killed my cousin fifteen years ago.But I was shocked when his three brothers arrived at CM with new clothes including suit,shirt,tie,shoes,socks etc.I caused a drama in CM by strongly being opposed to those luxuries and almost all villagers supported me.I managed to grab those clothes in the confusion and returned them to Nyals where the owners refunded the shs 20000 after explaining how the guy died.I handed the money to his twin high school sons,the ONLY PROPERTY HE HAD DECLARED in his life.

One area which Kenyan leaders are not transparent about is the "end product". A few days ago, some legislators from Uganda were arraigned in court for diverting Iron sheets meant for the poor into their Own and distributing them amongst relatives and fellow legislators. While i do not use Uganda as a good example of a free corrupt country, Kenyan leaders don't learn to do anything right.
What did i expect? I expected to read something like, "the City Government will build a private Wing Mortuary for the rich Kenyans and money raised will be used to uplift the Pumwani Hospital into a modern Hospital with high end facilities". Just an example!
So now comes the question, where will the money raised from this mortuary end up?

Like they will know they are on a special wing :-)

...not necessarily for the rich... for those who will value that level of service.... There are many not-rich individuals who'll choose to it over the current.

...not necessarily for the rich... for those who will value that level of service.... There are many not-rich individuals who'll choose it over the current.

This is capitalism at its best. Make money where you see it. There are 2 businesses that will have clients no matter what, Daycares and Morgues.
The thing here is very simple, we came in butt naked and we will leave butt naked.
All of us are entitled to a 3×6×6 lot, I have never seen anyone being buried with their wealth. Money is a tool for the fool.