Autopsies

[quattro]

From what I gather when you die in Israel it is prefered that you are buried before sunset on the day you died . I seem to remember that Robert Maxwell was and he was killed on his boat in the Med. If I am right what happens if an autopsy is needed or don't they have them over there.

[andy hughes]

Burial within hours of death is actually Muslim, rather than Jewish tradition - but if legal restraints meant a body had to be retained, then the law would take precidence. Otherwise, the tradition, probably based on preventing the early decomposition of the body in the heat, continues.

[WendyW]

Jewish law requires that a burial take place within twenty-four hours after the death occurs but there are circumstances where a later burial is permitted see http://www.judean-norbeck.com/faq.html If an Autopsy is required in Israel then it is carried out within a very short timespace (as is the case in this country for both Moslems and Jews)

[xyzzyplugh]

- Just an aside re: Usage:- I thought autopsy was an American word and that we English use the phrase; 'post mortem'. Not sure what they call it in Israel. If you are indeed American Quattro then please ignore my interruption. :-)

[quattro]

Thank you for your answers it may seem a morbid subject but it has puzzled me for some time . I'm not an American by the way I just could'nt think of the word at the late hour I posted the question