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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>From: Saul Guberman <A href="mailto:saulguberman@gmail.com">saulguberman@gmail.com</A><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>I recall learning the reason for burying in their clothes
without<BR>a tahara at a chevra kaddisha shiur. It was not so that the
people<BR>would take revenge, but that God would "see" the plight of his people
&<BR>take He would take revenge. This explanation goes well with adding
HYD,<BR>when speaking of the niftarim.<BR><BR>On a practical note, this
generally does not happen in the US because<BR>by the time EMS,the Emergency
room & the Medical Examiner have finished<BR>their work, the person is no
longer in their street clothes, so a taharah<BR>is done on a murder
victim.<BR><BR>Saul</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>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. <FONT lang=0 color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><FONT color=#000000>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.)</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><FONT color=#000000>Hashem yerachem and may we never see such sights
again.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><FONT color=#000000></FONT><BR></FONT> <FONT lang=0 color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><B>--Toby
Katz<BR>==========<BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"></B>--------------------</DIV></FONT></DIV>
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