“Coffin Dance” … Humor or Funeral Habit?

Dance and bizarre moves with the coffin.. An unusual scene of what usually happens in the funerals that come with crying and sadness.

A video titled “Coffin Dance” hits social media sites, shows a group of African young men who bid death to their final resting place by dancing to strange music, preceded by an intellectual scene that suggests that he ended with an inevitable injury.

But what is that dance? Where did it come from? Is it just a new challenge that spreads among young people on the Social Media? Or for the rest of the story?
By returning to the roots of African culture, the dance of the coffin is a social habit prevalent on the black continent, namely Ghana, where funerals are important social events and a last farewell to the dead, in a way that celebrates his life and prepares him for other life. According to the prevailing belief there.

With their black outings, white shoes, and special glasses, these young men form a group of 6 to 8 people holding the coffin, waving it right and left with their dance movements, with the aim of evoking the spirit of joy during the sad moments of farewell.