Yoruba funerary practice sorts deaths sharply. The death of an elder with living children is isinku, a celebration: drumming, masquerade, dancing, feasting, large expenditure, and a second burial some time afterwards to complete the transition into ancestorhood. The scale is such that funerals routinely consume a substantial portion of an estate, and the expense is periodically criticised inside Yoruba society itself, including from the pulpit. The death of a child, a young adult, or a person without children is treated altogether differently — quiet, quick, without celebration, and in some traditions with no elaborate rite at all, because nothing has been completed. Suicide and certain deaths regarded as bad carry their own restrictions. Reading the two treatments together gives a precise statement of what the tradition takes a successful human life to be: long, with descendants, ending at home, among people who will remember your name.