‘Do it quickly, quietly and privately’, late Onyeka Onwenu’s note on how to be buried
An article wherein the late singer, Onyeka Onwenu indicated her preference for how she was to be buried is trending.
In the article, the late iconic singer said it should be done quickly, quietly and privately.
The elegant stallion who made her mark in music, theatre, journalism, politics and authorship, died on Tuesday night, July 30, at the Reddington Hospital in Lagos after she slumped at a party Mrs Stella Okoli.
The article was an opinion published in Premium Times in 2021.
“Do it quickly, quietly and privately,” she wrote.
The singer urged her loved ones to mourn but not excessively. She implored them to celebrate her life with prayers and light-hearted moments.
She further encouraged them to celebrate her with prayers, lunch or dinner afterwards and share some jokes about her and laugh.
Onyeka asked them to “Make merriment and then go about your business”, adding that if her friends wanted to celebrate her they should do it while she was living and could be part of it and not when she was gone.
The singer condemned lavish display of wealth often seen at Nigerian burials.
On a last note, the singer expressed her aversion for lavish display of wealth on any occasion, especially in a time of hardship and lack for most others and counselled people to find more meaningful ways of celebrating the departed.
