Survey of the Relationship Between Online Committee of Friends Meetings, Burials, and Coping With Bereavement Among Nigerians in Ebonyi State
Ogbonnaya Alo Joseph Ekpechu, Ahamefule Innocent Nwosu, Ngozi Favour Okoro, Onuoha Ogobuchi Onuoha, Kennedy Okechukwu Ololo, Emmanuel Chimezie Eyisi, Emmanuel Chukwuebuka Orakwe, Jonathan Ukah, Gilbert Aro, Vivian Chizoma Njemanze, Ethelbert Okoronkwo, Popoola Tabitha Bukola, Nwabugo Chima Durueke, Takob Clementine Seh- Life-span and Life-course Studies
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
- Health (social science)
Online committee of friends meeting is a new trend in Nigeria. There is a continuous online interaction that goes on among the group members. The qualitative research design was used to carry out the study. The unstructured interview method was used to get information from the study participants. It was found among other things that the bereaved read, digest and accept the online condolence messages which serve as a coping tool to the loss of the loved one. Online COF is also a veritable tool in soliciting for and raising funds from online to facilitate the burial of loved ones owing to rising cost of conducting burials in Nigeria. It was concluded that coping with death is achieved in online COF through formation of whatsapp group, condolence messaging, friends digestion of information and acceptance of the pieces of advice raised and as divine will which comes when it will.