Expensive funerals

AFTER attending several funeral gatherings within the Highlands communities in Port Moresby, I have come to see these gatherings as also an opportunity for the relatives of the dead to raise funds for personal use.
In one funeral I attended (Tari community) for the death of an old woman, money totaling more than K100,000 was raised.
The funeral gathering lasted six weeks with the body left at the 3-Mile morgue.
When it came for the body to be taken to the village, the beneficiary of the funeral contributions only paid the freight for the body and airfares for four other relatives travelling with it.
He pocketed the rest of the money and he never went home to bury the body.
In a recent funeral (Mendi community), the person died a couple of weeks ago.
The cost to transport the body from Port Moresby to Mendi would be no more than K6000 and an additional K4000 for airfares, etc.
Yet the direct beneficiary is still in mourning and is rallying relatives, workmates and even the MP from his electorate to raise more funds.
The point is, in desperate times as these days are when the economy of the country is bad, people are making use of opportunities as such as death to milk relatives and friends of funds.
I prefer cremation to save cost. This maybe against some Christian principles but I don’t think the Bible speaks evil of it.

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