#One day you will hear that i am dead full#

If you hear that I am dead, please don’t mourn for me for I have enjoyed God’s unmerited grace and favour and I have lived a full life. If you hear that I am dead, please don’t say that I died an untimely death because no one gave me a specific number of years to live so how can you tell if it was not my time? From the leaves of the tree learn the lesson – green leaves fall and brown leaves also fall. Don’t go blaming anyone for my death for I go with joy. So, whenever I go and however I go, let me go in peace. If you hear that I am dead, please don’t go anywhere to look into it because I was not guaranteed to live forever.

So knowing fully well that I shall not live forever, let me put a few things on record for the certain event of my death. So, we keep harming and killing ourselves knowing that our people will never bother with why we died but will put the blame on someone else. And because we always have someone to blame for death, we never take the cause of death seriously and we don’t learn from the harmful lifestyles that killed our loved ones in order to avoid them. There are people whose diet is killing them but when they die, we will have some innocent person to blame for it. There are people who are destroying their kidneys and lungs with various substances and yet when they die, we will have someone to blame. My doctor friends tell me that so many of us are carrying diseases we are not aware of and keep adopting lifestyles that make the situation worse. I asked the family, “How long did you expect this woman to live before you will accept the fact that it is now time for her to go?” The sad thing was that it was this same daughter-in-law who had nursed the old woman in the last 15 years of her life when none of her own children was willing to take up that onerous responsibility. One of the most absurd cases I have ever heard was the case of a 95-year old woman who died and her daughter-in-law was accused of killing her. We will rather consult and work with what an oracle says and discard overwhelming scientific evidence. We insist that no one dies a natural death and when death occurs we are not interested in the real cause. This is a typical Ghanaian attitude to death.

They believed the oracle even though they were aware that KK had had problems with his health from his school days. When 30-year old KK died, his family went to his office and attacked one of his colleagues because it had been revealed to them by an oracle that he had killed KK.

One day you will hear that i am dead