This paper sought to examine Igbo philosophy of death as an essential feature for authentic human existence in Africa.Death is a mystery which defies human understanding.No wonder,existentialist philosophers conceive death as the facticity of human existence.Different cultures have undertaken to unravel the mystery of death.Hence,African nay Igbo conceives death as a transition of human beings from this physical world of the living to the world of the spirit.The invisible world of the spirit is a place where our revered ancestors live.The second burial rites are performed to gravitate the dead to ancestral world of spirit.African metaphysical assumptions of death and life after death are therefore subjected to critical examination.
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机译：This paper sought to examine Igbo philosophy of death as an essential feature for authentic human existence in Africa.Death is a mystery which defies human understanding.No wonder,existentialist philosophers conceive death as the facticity of human existence.Different cultures have undertaken to unravel the mystery of death.Hence,African nay Igbo conceives death as a transition of human beings from this physical world of the living to the world of the spirit.The invisible world of the spirit is a place where our revered ancestors live.The second burial rites are performed to gravitate the dead to ancestral world of spirit.African metaphysical assumptions of death and life after death are therefore subjected to critical examination.
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