The Law and an Ancestral Request For Exhumation

Exhumation is the removal of remains a dead body from its initial resting place – in other words, when corpse removed coffin, either to be re-buried at another place, or dispose different manner as cremation. A could deceased person stillborn child fetus. An exhumation may also undertaken ascertain cause death identity deceased. court immediate family request an for any mentioned reasons. If asked by ancestors exhume grave, certain legal questions come fore. It purpose this note discuss requirements exhumations and briefly address traditional African cultural belief which play part life on earth. not complete analysis opinion culture beliefs. Ancestral beliefs simply form background real surrounding South Africa.