How long to leave a body undisturbed after death?
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The site urbandharma.org mentions that the body should be kept for about 3 days.
Immediately following signs of physical death, Buddhists believe that it is best to keep the body in a peaceful state. Traditionally, the body is taken to the home and for a period of 3 days or so, the body is not touched and extensive prayers are said. This facilitates the process of the person’s consciousness letting go of its prior body and life and all of its attachments and more easily moving to the next.
http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma8/health.html
The exact number of days may vary from tradition to tradition.
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There are many stories where someone wakes up after being declared dead:
- 7 bizarre tales of people coming back from the dead
- 10 People Who Woke Up After Being Pronounced Dead
- Google search: Woke Up Pronounced Dead
At least in Sri Lanka there is no notion or any specific time before one should be send to the morgue. There always a change when some one is pronounced dead is not actually dead but declared so as an error. Best is to wait a enough to ensure that some one pronounced dead is in fact actually dead.
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