CELEBRATION OF LIFE OF SOUND CHARACTER!
Beloved Emeka,
Today we celebrate you! We celebrate your life of integrity and selfless service. Your children and I celebrate your love, leadership and rich legacy. Today your siblings, colleagues and friends stand in attention to celebrate your glorious exit with honour, deep sense of love and appreciation.
As your friend, Dr Charles Cudjoe, would say, "Life is a biochemical chain reaction. Once it is launched like a rocket, it must reach its final destination which is death." Everyone's life begins and ends the same way. It is only the details of how they came, they lived, and how they died that distinguish one person from another. The legacy we leave behind is what matters most. Life is God's gift to us. What we make of it is our gift back to Him.
The day you were born, while the heavens wept because they had lost an Angel, Man rejoiced because a Star was born. And today, while Man weeps because he has lost a legend, the Angels joyously celebrate your home call.
You were sick for more than six long years but your life was preserved by God's bountiful grace. He could have called you home when you clinically died on the Theatre table at ABU Shika on September 4, 2012 but He did not. He revived you and restored your life. Again He could have taken you last September, 2016, but His grace prevailed till December when it pleased Him to call you home to glory.
As we mourn the irreparable gap created by your absence, we draw strength and fortitude from your profound sense of integrity and sound godly character. We thank God especially for a life well spent, selfless service to mankind, and for positively touching more lives than you may ever know.
The testimonies are profound and incredible, healing, developing and transforming lives. As Chief Consultant Surgeon you trained and mentored uncountable Medical Doctors of diverse disciplines who are now scattered all over the world. They honour, appreciate and celebrate your humble and noble life always.
You are a Genius and a Legend of inestimable value. Truly, precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His Saints! Sleep on, precious one, sleep on till we meet to part no more.
Your beloved wife,
Prof. Mrs. Nancy Nwannediuto Udezue.(Nee Utaegbulam)