Spiritually and physically/practically. I saw a very interesting documentary the other day which mentioned that some religions in India only burn their dead bodies, and that Jews and Muslims don't believe in embalming. I didn't know that. Is it really true?
In any case, it got me thinking and questioning, so I hope that people out there can enlighten me!!
So, what happens when someone of your religion dies?
2006-09-20 07:58:01 · 13 answers · asked by A 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
anoldmick: I am confused about your response. Which passage is this you are talking about? How can I look it up if you don't tell me where to find it?!
2006-09-20 08:15:25 · update #1
Its true muslims don't embalm.
When a muslim person dies the following happens:
They wash the body with water
Wrap the body in 2 white cloths
The community prays for forgivness, on the deceesed behalf
The body is taken to the graveyard and buried
All of this is taken place within a day or two the most.
The person's soul will either rest in peace until the day of Judgement or will be punished depending on the person.
2006-09-20 08:05:56 · answer #1 · answered by **PuRe** 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is true that Muslims and Jews do not believe in embalming. If an Orthodox Jewish person were to die for instance on the roadway, any blood that would be on a sheet or gauze would need to accompany the body to the place of burial. They believe that everything that you came into this world with, you should leave with. Hence they do not participate in organ donation and if they have to be embalmed for some reason, the blood has to be collected into receptacles and buried with the body. In a normal non-Jewish embalming, the blood just washes down the drain ,like any other waste. I saw where someone said that if you die without a will they just cremate you?! Um, no. I have buried lots of people who die without a will. It is entirely up to the family whether they bury or cremate.
2006-09-20 11:34:04 · answer #2 · answered by Reagan 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jews believe that at the day the messiah returns, all the dead people will come to life again, that's why Jews believe that a person must be buried so that the corpse is in contact with the soil (you were created from soil and you return to the soil). the body must be complete (so donation of organs is not acceptable)
2006-09-20 08:03:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
When someone dies, they're dead. This means that their body stops moving. This includes all organs of the body: the heart, the lungs, the blood in the veins and arteries, and also includes all biological and chemical reactions. This means all cellular processes stop. This means that the cells themselves die, including all the brain cells. This means that conciousness ceases. Death is the end of life. So what happens after anyone of any relgion dies is the same thing: they're dead.
2006-09-20 08:04:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Although I am not a believing Christian, I take my answer from the Bible: there is no life beyond physical death. Have you the courage to look up that particular passage or are you so frightened of the prospect that you'll deny the passage exists WITHOUT looking?
2006-09-20 08:04:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible teaches neither heaven nor hell... the bible teaches that loss of life is the different of life,, and life ceases to exist. Ecclesiastes 9: 5,6 ,10 "For the living are unsleeping that they are going to die, yet as for the lifeless they are unsleeping of no longer something in any respect, neither do they anymore have wages, by way of fact the remembrance of them has been forgotten. additionally their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished and that they have not have been given any element anymore to time indefinite in something that must be completed below the solar. All which you palms discover to do , do inclusive of your very ability for there is no paintings, nor devising, nor awareness, nor know-how in Sheol the region to which you're going" So if the lifeless are not unsleeping of something,, and there is no awareness or know-how,, Then Genesis 3:sixteen could be actual " you will return to the floor for out of it you have been taken. For dirt you're and dirt you will return" they're going to decompose to place it purely. that is like asking the place a flame is going once you blow out a candle.
2016-10-01 04:37:25 · answer #6 · answered by schnetter 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
reincarnation is the belief in buddhism, but physically,after someone is dead, they have some sort of morning period, some ritual of leaving food around shrines for blessings...and then they bury it. that explanation is extremely vague and confusing, sorry, im just a very lazy buddhist :p
2006-09-20 15:25:20 · answer #7 · answered by Slevin Kelevra 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are kept for three days for the most.
They are burried nine feet under. When they becaome ancestors we have a celebration for Egun Egun which is yoruba for ancestors.
We just keep passing the tradition onwards.
2006-09-20 08:46:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if there was a living will, people try to follow it
but if no will, generally a cremation will happen and ashes scattered to the winds
people gather for a wake and speak well of them what they can remember, get a chance to deal with it and grieve
a small part of us dies with but the hope we too will impact others for good lives in each of us...
we strive to do well in life so in death we are not sad and move on to whatever is after...whatever it may be
no one really knows
2006-09-20 08:02:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
they die, we send them to the morgue to get embalmed, they chill out there a while, we dig a big hole and say some words and go home.
2006-09-20 08:05:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋