Why coffin should be a boring box, where you can order to be made in the form of a lobster, red pepper, poultry or shoe? Indigenous inhabitants of a small African nation of Ghana believes that the funeral – it’s not a sad farewell to the deceased, it is a celebration of a man crossing the road to a better world. It is here that there was a tradition of putting the corpse in the coffin of a special bright intricate shapes.
1. This tradition was quite young and came from a stupid accident: in the middle of last century one of the Ghanaian rulers ordered for a litter (stretcher as a bed or chair for 2 poles) in the form of an eagle, delivery of which has fallen exactly on the day of his death. Resourceful families have provided the litter cover, and buried him in the monarch.
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