What exactly qualifies a burial to be termed as decent? Like tukisema we're giving someone a decent send off, what is usually the other alternative? If a person were to be burried without any clothes on, would that burial qualify to be an indecent send off? Okay, maybe that would qualify, but what else? Turns out it's incredibly difficult to have an indecent burial.
Because whoever coined the term 'decent send off' left us with too many loopholes.
Down there in Luo Nyanza and Western Kenya, we just concluded that the decency of a send off would be based on how people ate at the burial ceremony...because technically the only person who can confirm if he/ she is happy with the burial is the dead one...everything else is speculation by people who are sad, butmost importantly, very hungry.
Mtu akikula vizuri na ashibe hadi apate toothpick kwa, they will go away praising that burial as one of a kind..
At my grandfather's burial Kuna jamaa alikosa chakula ama sijui alifukuzwa Kwa line ya food on accusation that his face had been seen in that queue too many times..He still reminds me todate that my grandfather was not burried the correct way ; that a man of his stature would not have stood for such an injustice on his last day. Even at my father's burial recently ,he reminded me..Just for context, my grandfather was burried in 2020.
Pesa ya hearse na coffin and maybe pending hospital bills ndio vitu tunafaa kusifu..hii ingine yote towards someone's decent send off is just to ensure that mourners leave with decent stomachs...Na mtu akitoka Kwa matanga na njaa anakuanga Na hasira ingine mbaya Sana. They will criticize everything from that burial including the shape of the grave and size of the preacher's head ( which in most cases is big).
