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I've just been told that a woman was buried in the nude because she said when she was alive she was born naked and wanted to die naked. I have a friend that works in a funeral home and they told me this the other day. I like clothes so I would never like this.
Well, my mom wanted to be buried in a comfortable robe. She said she didn't like to dress up in life, and she didn't want to dress up in death. She wanted a comfortable bathrobe. So that's what she was buried in. If someone wants to be naked, why not?
I am a firm believer that a dying person's wishes should be honored. I watched my mother through the last 6 months of her life, and found her to have lost her dignity and her modesty, as well as her disease lingering and allowing her to suffer, which she made absolutely clear she did not want to do.
Unfortunately, as I realized first-hand, for people who sign Advance Directives and Living Wills, etc. which allows them to refuse death-delaying treatment, there is nothing to keep them from suffering. In fact, my mother lingered another WEEK after we stopped food and water, hoping she'd pass quickly, as she'd wished.
If she had requested to be buried naked, that's what we would have done. No sheet; nothing. It would have been her request. For someone else to "re-interpret" her wishes (i.e. cover her with a sheet and remove it before burial) is cruel & unusual punishment, in my opinion.
For someone who doesn't want to remember this as their last "memory," I am supposing you have the right not to view the casket or not to attend the calling hours. The burial does not require a viewing.
Lastly, unless I missed this somewhere in the post(s), I don't believe you mentioned whether this was an open or closed casket situation. Not that it matters, it's just something that just occurred to me.
If a loved one ask to be buried naked, then you bury them naked. It's quite simple.
Normally a casket can be split in two, hence you will only see her boobs. Also it is only the closest family who get to see her in the casket. During the ceremony the casket is closed.
I apologize - I apparently didn't notice or it just didn't register when I saw the thread. Sometimes I just have my head up my butt - sorry, did not mean to offend.
not offensive at all. In fact I got a really hearty laugh from reading it.
It's Jewish tradition, when buried in a casket, to be unclothed. Open caskets and viewings aren't part of the Jewish tradition.
I did not know that, toos! Thanks for the info.
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Originally Posted by Camlon
If a loved one ask to be buried naked, then you bury them naked. It's quite simple.
Normally a casket can be split in two, hence you will only see her boobs. Also it is only the closest family who get to see her in the casket. During the ceremony the casket is closed.
No true if you have visitation hours. Everyone who comes would see her/him like that.
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