Accra: Veteran Ghanaian highlife musician and cultural advocate Rex Omar has expressed his unconventional perspectives on the concepts of death, burial, and the human body. In a candid interview on Joy Prime on February 5, 2026, he articulated his belief that death, as commonly understood, does not actually exist.
According to Ghana Web, Rex Omar stated that he does not attach spiritual or emotional importance to funerals or elaborate burial rites. He explained that what people often refer to as death is merely the physical body's deterioration, while the essence of a person continues to exist. "This body will deteriorate but I will never die. There's nothing like death. What you call death is the body deteriorating," he remarked.
He further elaborated that the human body is essentially composed of food and water and should not be excessively glorified once life has departed. "Anything that has given birth to, where did I get this body from? I was like this they gave birth to me. The body is just food and water so when the time comes for me to leave this body, I don't care wherever you put it," he stated.
The highlife legend emphasized that he does not require religious or traditional ceremonies upon his passing, describing such practices as merely human customs. "I have children; I have family. I don't need a church to bury me. The real me would have gone long ago. The times that you guys do churches and funerals, they are all human stuff," he shared.
Rex Omar added that once a person passes away, what remains is just an empty shell, making the specifics of burial arrangements irrelevant from his perspective. "If I die now, I'm gone so as to wherever you put the body, whether you burn it or throw it away, that's not necessary," he concluded.