Things Fall Apart
Chapter 25
Why do they need the Commissioner’s men to do it?
Why do they need the Commissioner’s men to do it?
No one in the clan can touch the body. Suicide is a crime against the earth goddess, and so the body must be handled by outsiders. Obierika says bitterly to the DC that Okonkwo was one of the greatest men of Umuofia. Because of the white man, he has been driven to suicide and will be buried like an animal.