Corpse 'wakes up' before funeral pyre

An Indian woman narrowly escaped being burned alive after doctors wrongly declared her dead and relatives prepared her funeral pyre.
Grieving family members were about to place 72-year-old Magan Kanwar on the flames yesterday when she suddenly "woke up", The Times of India reported.

Female mourners who were bathing the "corpse" in preparation for the traditional send-off noticed she was breathing and the funeral in Jaipur, northwest India, was immediately halted.Read more: Corpse 'wakes up' before funeral pyre

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Dead Woman 'Wakes up' at Funeral

VISAKHAPATNAM: A woman, who was declared dead by doctors and whose body was being taken in a procession to the burial grounds, suddenly stirred and stood up sending shivers down the spine of relatives and others present here on Thursday. Read more: Dead woman 'wakes up' at funeral

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Teen jumps into Girlfriend's funeral pyre, kills self

SIRSA: In a shocking incident, a 17-year-old boy allegedly jumped into the funeral pyre of his girlfriend who had committed suicide after her parents refused to accept their relationship.

The incident took place in the Rori village of Sirsa district on Monday. While the girl, Veer Pal Kaur, was a student of Class IX, her boyfriend, Bittu Singh, a native of Malsinghwala village of Punjab, studied in Class XI. The two had been studying in the same school and had been going around for the past couple of years. Read more...................17-yr-old jumps into girlfriend's funeral pyre, kills self

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Man jumps onto funeral pyre, dies

Varanasi: A man, said to be mentally unstable, was charred to death after he jumped onto a funeral pyre in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi district, police said.
The incident occurred near the Manikarnika ghat (bank) of the Ganges river in Varanasi, some 250 km from Lucknow. Read More................Man jumps onto funeral pyre, dies

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Just Log on to attend Funeral

Christians in Chennai in Tamil Nadu state of India are figuring out a way to include the entire family at funerals, even if they cannot be physically present.

The Madras Cemeteries Board will soon start online telecast of funeral services, a move seen as keeping pace with the times, since several kin of the deceased stay too far away to make it the ritual. Read more.......Can't make it to funeral? Just log on

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Man Weds at Mother's Funeral

An Indian man, "P Sanjeevi Rajan" married his bride "R Sasikalah" in front of his mother's coffin during the funeral on Tuesday at his family home. Mr. Rajan is presently settled in Malaysia & as per him he got married at her mother's funeral to fulfill her wish of being present at the nuptials.

"I could have got married in the temple later, but would my mother be there? At least now, my mother is still here. It means the world to me," Sanjeevi Rajan, 28, said.

"It’s both the saddest and happiest day for me in one go," he said wiping away his tears.

Sasikalah said she was fortunate to have her wedding in front of her mother-in-law.

"I got the chance to pay my last respects as the daughter-in-law and it means a lot to me."

His mother, K. Narani, 47, died from a heart attack in Chennai, India on Sunday while shopping for accessories for the wedding originally scheduled for June 30.

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Where Vultures Eat Human Corpses

Parsis are members of the Zoroastrian community based in India & many of them dwell in Bombay City of India. Parsis are descendents of Persian Zoroastrians who emigrated to the India over 1,000 years ago to escape the religious persecution after the Islamic Conquest over there.

Indian Parsis have a tradition that after the death of a person in their community / family, they leave the corpse in open at the Towers of Silence - the Funeral Place of the Parsis, where the corpses are devoured by vultures. Though it may seem to be a weird tradition among the community but it is happening since very long past time. Now this weird tradition of devouring the corpses by vultures is not working properly as in the Bombay City, where most of Parsis community is there, vulture population in the city is decreasing day by day & it takes months for a body to be devoured by these vultures while deaths are happening at its own pace.

Now what the Parsis community should do? It is more advisable to either put the body to flames like done in Hindu Tradition or Bury it, as done in Muslim & Christen religion. Otherwise also if you live with your loved ones for the whole of the life, his/her body should be given a respectable treatment after death & should not be left to be eaten by vultures. Let us show our love & respect to our Loved ones even after their death, irrespective of our religion.

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