Rex Omar is a veteran Ghanaian highlife musician
Veteran Ghanaian highlife musician and cultural advocate Rex Omar has shared his unconventional views about death, burial, and the human body.
He stated that he does not believe death truly exists.
Speaking in an interview on Joy Prime on February 5, 2026, Rex Omar explained that he does not attach spiritual or emotional importance to funerals or elaborate burial rites.
According to him, what people commonly describe as death is simply the physical body deteriorating, while the real self lives on.
“This body will deteriorate but I will never die. There’s nothing like death. What you call death is the body deteriorating,” he said.
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.
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“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 stressed that he does not require religious or traditional ceremonies when he passes on, insisting that such practices are 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 dies, what remains is just an empty shell, making burial arrangements irrelevant to him.
“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 added.
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