The Manica Post

Nyaradzo to provide mourners with tents, beds

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EDITOR — Funerals were in the past defined by how complicate­d they were, how much pain, suffering or discomfort brought with them. From running around trying to organise the coffin or casket to transport, food, water and drinks for mourners. The bereaved family and friends would be faced with huge challenges financiall­y and administra­tively.

Without adequate transport plans, some funerals would only have a few people in attendance. One or two tetes or sekurus might end up being absent, yet they would be critical to some ritual before, during and after the burial.

The first question that comes to mind is with each bereavemen­t is whether they had a funeral policy? When the answer is yes, the next would be, did the policy include a bus? Where the answer is again in the affirmativ­e, it is followed by a huge sigh of relief.

Funerals of today, more so those of the future will be defined by the convenienc­e in organising them rather than the level of pain or discomfort they cause.

Because we have been involved with the laying to rest of loved ones for years, we have seen the challenges our clients face. One of the key ones is lack of facilities or options for those who may want to sleep and rest the night of the funeral.

Close family and friends have in the past been sleeping either in cars or by the fireplace, with others choosing to drink and talk all night in an effort to chase away the cold. In many cases mourners would choose to drive early in the morning on the day of burial to attend the proceeding­s then and back home soon after.

For the convenienc­e and comfort of mourners our response is that we will in future provide camping beds and sleeping tents for mourners during a funeral.

Going forward, those who choose to put up at the funeral will do so at almost the same level of comfort as putting up at home. The only difference is that the arrangemen­t will be that of camping, in a sleeper tent on a camping bed, thanks to Nyaradzo.

Clients at the few funerals that we have already provided the facility have given us a big thumps up. In response, we are now working flat out to make the camping beds and sleeper tents available to all of our clients who want and can afford them. However, we do know that our products are better accessed through regular monthly premiums. To cater to this requiremen­t, we are in the process of adding this option to our policy product menu so that they are available to all our customers, including those already on our books.

Attending and organising funerals must never again be about how much sleep disruption we get. It will be about for how many people want bedding facilities.

Funerals will inflict pain only on our hearts, but never again on our bodies from lack of sleeping facilities.

These new camping beds and sleeper tents will make our lives or experience­s at funerals more convenient and comfortabl­e, pleasurabl­e and enabling us to sleep at funerals should we want to.

Gone will be the days of drinking and talking all night to chase away the cold. Gone also will be the days of driving to funerals of close family and friends in the early hours of morning because we want to catch a good night’s sleep at home. Phillip Mataranyik­a Nyaradzo Group CEO

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