For health & safety coupled with security concerns that's why the coffin is closed .Is high time Ghanaians stop viewing,hugging and kissing the corpse because of its not healthy to do that ,in fact dead bodies are not openly displayed anymore in developed countries anymore .Kofi Annan was a well known figure and was always on television so moreover has a picture in front of his coffin so why do Ghanaians want his coffin opened to see what?a dead face or what?it's all rubbish and shear backwardness of how an illiterate thinks and behaves in Ghana.