Why You Should Stop Traveling Together With Family Members in One Vehicle or Aircraft, By Anayo Nwosu

I cry each time I read that a whole family is wiped off either in a road accident or plane crash. 

I end up blaming the decision maker of that trip. It is nothing but a suicide mission. 

Igbos pray against this occurrence in a popular name "Amaechina" meaning "may my family or generation not be wiped out". 

To do a long travel with all members of your family in the same vehicle from Lagos to the East or North is tempting fate. It is very dangerous.

Not all accidents are caused by the drivers of the affected vehicles.

Some causative vehicles have been said to have flown or somersaulted across lanes to kill those in slowly and carefully driven vehicles.

Therefore, no one should trust that his own careful driving can always lead his or her family to an assured destination.

Why the  unwarranted self-induced extermination of one's own generation?

I could feel someone saying that it is not his  or her portion. Wonderful! Whose portion is it then? The catastrophic occurrence is preventable.

A simple risk management precaution demands that you should split the traveling family members into two or more depending on the family size.

The groups should to be led by either of the parents.

The economic logic of traveling together panes into regret if a tragedy happens.

So many wealthy men don't do long travels in the same vehicles with their wives when their children are still young.

As the children grow, couples could travel together with their wives but should NEVER be in the same plane or vehicle with their possible successors.

A popular Nnewi name "Agwuncha" meaning "we won't all perish or die at once" underpins the wisdom to reduce this risk to the family.

The need to take precaution against death informed the Igbo name  "Onwuamaegbu" meaning "death has no pattern in occurrence".

Please preserve your generation and avoid dying together with your loved ones.

That extra cost or inconvenience of separate travels by your family members would ensure that your family names remain immortal.

That's the real meaning of "Afamefuna" or "may my name never be forgotten or lost".

Now you have been warned, please be guided!