Worli Crematorium Not In Line With Religion?

Dear Editor,

Recently, I had an occasion to go to Worli Crematorium to attend a funeral of one of my relatives. I observed that the body was put on the ladder type wooden slabs and there was no white sheet thereon. There was no suchker ceremony or sagehd ceremony. According to our religion after few hours, the dead body becomes contaminated and it should not be touched by any one. In contrast, the relatives of the deceased touched the dead body and put flowers on it, which in my view is contrary to the Zoroastrian traditions. At Worli crematorium I saw that the relatives of the deceased put the dead body in the furnace of the crematorium. The ambience near the crematorium was not good and some non-Parsis were also there near the Crematorium hall. Outside the crematorium hall the atmosphere was very dirty.

I feel that what is being done at Worli Crematorium is a mockery of our religious system of disposal of the dead.

Khorshed Dinshaw Oomrigar