I hadn't planned to wash the corpse. But sometimes you just get caught up in the moment. Through a series of slight miscalculations, I am the first of the deceased woman's relatives to arrive at the ...

For centuries, Hindus gathered to burn corpses on funeral pyres along the Ganges River. Jews received condolences at home during a seven-day mourning period. Muslims huddled together to wash the ...

Muslim scholars have now proclaimed that bodies of faithful will be buried without performing traditional rite of washing in the wake of the contagious Covid-19. They issued new guidelines on the ...

There's a ritual involved in preparing a Muslim's body for burial. The corpse must be washed several times, dressed in a simple shroud and then quickly buried by tradition on the day of death. Only ...