Concept of Cremation in Sematic Religions and Corona Cremations of Deceased in an Early Phase of Covid-19

Abstract

Like plague, COVID-19 is also a pandemic disease which came in the whole world. Due to its contagious nature, it had widely affected the people all over the globe. Among those people, there were individuals that belong to different faith groups all around. Their dead bodies were maltreated regardless of their family wills and religious beliefs system due to the fear of the spread of disease. So, Cremations were performed immediately of the dead soul in order to keep the living people and the land safe from the disease. It had badly affected the emotions of the people and created state of fear among them. As the dignity of the deceased is honored in all the sematic religions. The purpose of the study is to find that whether the concept of cremation for disposing deceased is permitted or prohibited in the sematic religions and whether the practice of cremation is performed in covid-19 pandemic by the people of different faith groups such as Muslims, Christians and Jews according to their wills. As both the methods of disposing deceased were performed in covid-19 such as burial as well as cremation. The methodology adopted for conducting research is qualitative. It includes both the primary and the secondary sources.  The reader will come to know about the concept of cremation in Islam, Christianity, and Jewish religion that are sematic religions and whether the dignity of the deceased is valued in sematic religions. As the deceased rights according to their respective religions shall be performed to which it belongs, as it varies in every religion. Finally, every individual on their part should know that in case of a pandemic situation whether cremation be a final solution or not for saving humanity from the disease as well as its impact on the mourners, family members, and relatives of the deceased and on the community members.