I`ve always wondered this question. I was told all thru my life not to "touch" a deceased person be it in a dream or even during burial. Does anyone have an idea why I was told ie. advised of  this?

~Nanner~

Aaaaaaaaha -  Can you go into depth on that one? Unclean in what way?
Hugs,
Nanner

That's interesting, I had never heard not to touch a dead body. 

I recently learned how flowers became part of a funeral...flowers were sent (supposedly from what I heard) to cover the smell of the decaying body.

Since we're on this subject...lol  Has anyone ever heard of cutting a lock of your hair to bury with the dead?  I know someone who had done that, and there was a reason, but I can't remember it.

Nanna,

Come on supertition supertition

alan

Greetings,

another angle on this might be that earlier peoples had the same understanding as did the Tibetans, that dieing is not an instantaneous process, but that the subtle bodies leave the physical at different rates, taking days.

With this understanding, anyone who touched the body during this time would bring their own energy field into conflict with the energies that were trying to separate and move up and away. I believe the entire process took almost 31 days or so. National Geographic TV had a program on it a few years ago.

A soul brought up in any culture would know the expectations and probably try to die accordingly. although it took tibetans thirtyish days to accomplish  getting all aspects to the afterlife, currently our improved diet etc could account for our slipping out more easily.

That's a mix of what I recall from the program and what I suppose.   

Love, Bets

Nanna here is the biblical view.


<< Ezekiel 44:25 >>


New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"They shall not go to a dead person to defile themselves; however, for father, for mother, for son, for daughter, for brother, or for a sister who has not had a husband, they may defile themselves.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
" 'A priest must not make himself unclean by going near a dead body. But a priest may become unclean if the dead person is his father, mother, son, daughter, brother, or unmarried sister.

King James Bible
And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.

American Standard Version
And they shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.

Bible in Basic English
They are not to come near any dead person so as to become unclean: but for a father or mother or son or daughter or brother or for a sister who has no husband, they may make themselves unclean.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shall come near no dead person, lest they be defiled, only their father and mother, and son and daughter, and brother and sister, that hath not had another husband: for whom they may become unclean.

Darby Bible Translation
And they shall come at no dead person to become unclean; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may become unclean.

English Revised Version
And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.

Jewish Publication Society Tanakh
And they shall come near no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.

World English Bible
They shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister who has had no husband, they may defile themselves.

Young's Literal Translation
And unto any dead man they come not for uncleanness, but for father, and for mother, and for son, and for daughter, for brother, for sister who hath not been to a man, they defile themselves.


Leviticus 21:1 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: 'No one shall defile himself for a dead person among his people, (NASB ©1995)
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.

Le 21:1-6 22:4 Mt 8:21,22 Lu 9:59,60 2Co 5:16 1Th 4:13-15



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Daughter Dead Defile However Husband Mother Priest Sister Themselves Unclean Uncleanness Unmarried


Geneva Study Bible
And they shall come near no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may {g} defile themselves.

(g) They may be at their burial which was a defiling.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary



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alan

Nanner wrote on Feb 1^st, 2008 at 9:33am:

Probably comes from ancient times when there was no knowledge of bacterial infection from decaying bodies.My friend died recently and his wife was holding his hand.She was Chinese and they have a belief not to move for or change anything for 8 hours.So his wife stayed and held his hand for eight hours and then let go.We all honored that..
Devayan

devayan wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2008 at 3:38am:



  Hi there D.   I use to believe that about Y myself, found out later that there might have been some sneaky trickery that went on with that whole non decay issue that he and his organization is famous for.   I don't want to go a lot into Y in the more general sense, let's just say that i'm a bit skeptical of him having been fully "enlightened" according to some of his claims.  In any case, he was an interesting guy, and i sense he started off with good intentions and ideals for the most part.  I mostly enjoyed his biography, was one of my first books of that kind.  I'll leave it at that.

   Now, there is another case which may have some more merit to it, because its involving much, much longer periods of time than in Y's case, and not glass cases, possible secret injections, hand shaking, etc.  I say "may" because i can't seem to get any concrete info or sources on it (to tell the truth, haven't looked much). 

  The case if of Saint John of the Cross, apparently his body was in amazing condition hundreds of years after he had died and been buried.   He was a Christian Mystic who lived, i believe, definitely don't quote me, in the 1500's?

  Maybe Don here knowns something about this case?   Was there any independent verification for this claim?