"That way, the hospitals will have no basis to hold onto a body for so long as they are accustomed to do in the event medical bills are not cleared,” he said. The lawyer believes the emotional attachment Kenyans and Africans at large have with funerals makes it even easier for hospitals to employ unorthodox means of demanding medical bills to be paid. “You’ve seen families go as far as travelling to the US to have their kin’s bodies flown to Kenya for burial. In essence, there is no funeral without a body,” he says. “Have you ever thought of what a hospital will do in the event you leave them your kin’s body? They’ll simply bury it at their expense. Corpses have zero value."