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- Having dual funerals simultaneously:[1]
One is to have a separate funeral for each deceased person and is not to do a single funeral for two bodies. [It is, however, customary to hold a funeral for murder victims simultaneously.[2]] A community or funeral home which is charged with doing two funerals, is to precede the funeral of whoever died first.[3] [Even so] a female is preceded over a male [even if the male died first[4]].[5] If the first deceased is not ready for burial [such as due to delay Likavod Hameis[6]], then the second body may be preceded.
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[1] Michaber 354:1
[2] Pnei Baruch 4:12
[3] The reason: As once the first person dies, he has an obligation of burial which precedes the obligation of the second deceased. Alternatively, the first person to decease is preceded in order to prevent erosion of the body. [See Bris Avraham 14; Pischeiy Teshuvah 354:1]
[4] Tashbeitz 2:41; Rav Akiva Eiger 354:1
[5] Michaber ibid; See there regarding a scholar versus an ignoramus
[6] Shach 354:2
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