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From: Saul Guberman _saulguberman at gmail.com_ 
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I recall learning the reason for burying in their clothes  without
a tahara at a chevra kaddisha shiur. It was not so that the  people
would take revenge, but that God would "see" the plight of his people  &
take He would take revenge. This explanation goes well with adding  HYD,
when speaking of the niftarim.

On a practical note, this  generally does not happen in the US because
by the time EMS,the Emergency  room & the Medical Examiner have finished
their work, the person is no  longer in their street clothes, so a taharah
is done on a murder  victim.

Saul

 
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The law requires an autopsy in a murder case (here in Florida) and if an  
autopsy has been done on the head, a tahara (mikva or pouring water) cannot 
be  done.  There is too much of a gaping wound and it is impossible not to 
lose  blood.  I only remember seeing one case where the lady's head had been  
cut open for a post-mortem, the wound then clumsily stapled closed  again.   
We just cleaned the lady and dressed her in  tachrichim.  All we could do 
was cover  that area in order to keep the tachrichim clean.  (She came from 
the morgue  in a sheet, not in her clothes.   The bloody areas of the sheet 
were  buried with her.)
 
Hashem yerachem and may we never see such sights  again.

--Toby  Katz
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