A person can't dictate how their body should be buried - Appeal Court judge

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  • Kojopanin 10 months ago

    Travesty of Justice
    How can ones Will for Estate be granted But not How can be buried? Where come the separation of the two? The will for Estate, burial are all the wishes of the deceased. How can ones wishes on Estate be g ...
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  • FRANKIE 10 months ago

    A lawyer mentioned this sometime ago but I didn't think much about it. This is a learning curve.

  • Kweku Tsin 10 months ago

    This Kurasinii judge is only limited to his traditions. There is nothing legal about this. A dead body does not belong to anybody but may be God who gave us life. Only in Africa where people use these nonsense positions to ha ...
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  • Solo Pobee 10 months ago

    Where come the 'Kurasinii Judge' in this write-up? We are all learning by visiting this site. He is telling us what the law says and you're confusing it with traditional practice.

  • Doobia 10 months ago

    You addressed judge as kurasini for mentioning abuasua panyin yet you are dragging us to the west where we dont belong. Some Ghanaians are very funny

  • Chris 10 months ago

    These our laws. This may not necessarily happen in all traditional areas. Superstition all over.

  • Doobia 10 months ago

    Law at times may not make sense but may still be logic.

  • Charlie 10 months ago

    With all respect Mr Justice I find this very worrying, there are some very old / outdated burial practices in Ghana which need changing; an example is not allowing some family members to be laid in state, buried in secret loc ...
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  • Gee Wizz 10 months ago

    It's not prudent for people like you to comment about everything on social media!

  • Kweku Tsin 10 months ago

    You are an idiot.

  • Loose talker 10 months ago

    Kweku Tsin or whatever useless name you call yourself, you're a bloody useless fool

  • Kweku 10 months ago

    Exactly.An illiterate telling a judge about the law.You can say that you didn’t know and learn not to argue about something you know nothing about.

  • Gyasi 10 months ago

    How about if the dead wishes to be buried in a Golden coffin stated in the wiil but not with sufficient funds????

  • Kweku Tsin 10 months ago

    I watched the funerals of former president George Bush the first and Senator McCain from Arizona. Although they had a state burials their wishes were followed: from the speakers at their funerals to their favorite musical gro ...
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  • Kweku Tsin 10 months ago

    This Kurasinii judge is only limited to his traditions. There is nothing legal about this. A dead body does not belong to anybody, but may be God who gave us life. Only in Africa where people use these nonsense positions to h ...
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  • Wise Man. 10 months ago

    This is stupidity.

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  • Kwasi 10 months ago

    The practice is outdated. Maybe if the deceased is not well endowed for the wishes to be carried through, then spouse, children and family can team up and bury the dead. Presently, most funerals are funded by the spouse and c ...
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  • Ibrahim 10 months ago

    Stupid comment.so if I become a Christian and my family is Muslim, are you saying that because my family is Muslim, I should be buried as such against my religious values and will. What if the family wants a gran event and I ...
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  • Kay 10 months ago

    From where I come from they don't even contribute anything. When my dad passed on I borne 90+% of all the expense because I'm the first son according that stupid tradition. The useless and stupid abusiapanyin wanted to sabota ...
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  • Baffour 10 months ago

    What nonsense.

  • Yaw 10 months ago

    Absolute rubbish! If I die and my children want to give me a befitting burial according to my wishes you say an idiot who calls himself Abusuapanin must decide even if his plans goes against my wishes and that of my lively ch ...
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  • Agbotamayize 10 months ago

    If a******le rules a case everybody knows.

  • Oooooooo 10 months ago

    Hmmmm 3y3 as3m oooooo. Some judges and lawyers attempting to explain interprete the law without quoting a legal source or authority but insisting that is the law, hmmm the students from the arts college. The man quoted ezekie ...
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  • JULOR CAESAR 10 months ago

    Different traditions in Ghana have different burial requirements, and one tradition can't be used to determine or interpret the law regarding how funerals are to be carried out. Furthermore, wills are recognized by courts in ...
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  • Wow 10 months ago

    Why don’t the law mandates that the family foot the funeral bills since they own the body?
    This is certainly an illiterate judge who does not know that there’s something called power of attorney a legal document which g ...
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  • Citizen8 10 months ago

    Is this coming from an Appeal Court Judge and a member of the Assemblies of God Church? God have mercy on us.

  • I'm Akan and Mossi 10 months ago

    I've decided that when I pass away they should Bury me like a a Mossi Christian. Period

  • Reason 10 months ago

    I would write my will such that if any of my burial wishes are ignored, my entire estate goes to a cause I know goes against the family. Fair is only fair. Clearly the family that does not did not care about the deceased, so ...
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  • Kwame Peter 10 months ago

    It appears some of you come from traditional areas where there are no abusuapanin,it is just family head for your information,just get a will and leave the rest to God,some of you think insults can cure your mental deficiency ...
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  • That is ghana for you 10 months ago

    THIS FOOLISH LAW WILL BE CHANGED SOON TO CONFORM TO INTERNATIONAL PRACTICE AND GOOD PRACTICES.
    How can my body be a property of my family when I have the right to put in place what should pertain after my death.
    What happen ...
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  • Paa Kwesi in the Bronx 10 months ago

    Abusuapenin has no right when the couple is legally married under western law (US, canada and Europe).
    In regards to the body of the deceased spouse, who has the legal authority to organise the funerals. The legal authority ...
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  • Ozymandias 10 months ago

    If the Abusuapanin’s second name is TUPAC, will this judge allow his funeral/ body be handled by such a person?

  • Mensa 10 months ago

    Confusion nie!

  • Kay 10 months ago

    So if the family head decides the body be buried without a casket then that supercedes the wish of the dead. Absolute nonsense. Honestly this piece of information attest to the fact that our laws need to be reviewed to confor ...
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  • Kro 10 months ago

    How about of the deceased, while alive, broke away from the Abusua since he or she found it a useless one not worth being part of? In the event of death, will that rejected abusuapanin have a say?
    This law needs to be cha ...
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  • Short angel 10 months ago

    Dead men don't talk

  • Dee 10 months ago

    The law is an ass, don't let insults replace the mental deficiency or in some cases here, mental illness of some of the contributors here. It is what it is, the properties are covered by your will, but the way the body will b ...
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