{"id":410122,"date":"2026-02-05T23:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T23:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/410122\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T23:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T23:19:08","slug":"the-body-only-deteriorates-but-i-will-never-die-rex-omar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/410122\/","title":{"rendered":"The body only deteriorates but I will never die \u2013 Rex Omar"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Rex <\/a>Rex Omar is a veteran Ghanaian highlife musician<\/p>\n

Veteran Ghanaian highlife musician and cultural advocate <\/a><\/a><\/a>Rex Omar<\/a> has shared his unconventional views about death, burial, and the human body.

\nHe stated that he does not believe death truly exists.<\/p>\n

Speaking in an interview on Joy Prime on February 5, 2026, <\/a><\/a><\/a>Rex Omar<\/a> explained that he does not attach spiritual or emotional importance to funerals or elaborate burial rites.<\/p>\n

According to him, what people commonly describe as death is simply the physical body deteriorating, while the real self lives on.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis body will deteriorate but I will never die. There\u2019s nothing like death. What you call death is the body deteriorating,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

He further noted that the human body is only made up of food and water and should not be overly glorified once life is gone.<\/p>\n

Why I ditched Gospel for secular music – <\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>Rex Omar<\/a> explains<\/p>\n

\u201cAnything 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\u2019t care wherever you put it,\u201d he stated. <\/p>\n

The highlife legend stressed that he does not require religious or traditional ceremonies when he passes on, insisting that such practices are merely human customs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have children; I have family. I don\u2019t 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,\u201d he shared. <\/p>\n

<\/a><\/a><\/a>Rex Omar<\/a> added that once a person dies, what remains is just an empty shell, making burial arrangements irrelevant to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I die now, I\u2019m gone so as to wherever you put the body, whether you burn it or throw it away, that\u2019s not necessary,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

FG\/EB<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, watch the 2025 GhanaWeb Excellence Awards Nominees Unveiling below:<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rex Omar is a veteran Ghanaian highlife musician Veteran Ghanaian highlife musician and cultural advocate Rex Omar has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-410122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}