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Burying things with a Body

Question

Is it permitted to bury things with a body?

Answer

If something were "offered" to the dead as a sacrifice it would be forbidden; see Psalms 106:28. The things "given to" the dead are being destroyed or buried with them as an expression of grief; such things too become forbidden like the body itself.