ECONOMIC WISDOM OF SOCIAL DISTANCING
In Ghana, funerals are a big deal to family and friends. In fact, sometimes society judges the dead on the worth of their funeral. The style in which the dead is celebrated is most times an indication that the life of the deceased is a life well-lived. It is not news to hear or be involved in a discussion that approves of families borrowing huge sums of money to organize the funeral celebrations of a loved one. While some families look forward to recouping their debt from donations made during the funeral ceremony, others just cannot be bothered, all they want is to give their loved one a befitting burial. This is the reason most corpses are kept for months if not years to enable the family to saves enough money to celebrate their dead. In the case of some royal families, a special edifice is built for the dead either to lay the deceased in a state or bury the corpse in it as a sign of legendary. But one may ask of what use it is to invest huge sums of money celebrating the de
