First Ebola Victim Dies and Brings Burial Procedure to Light

It's official. The first victim with the Ebola virus has died, which brings into question how the body should be handled. Traditional burial or cremation. What do you think?

Thomas Eric Duncan, the man who was the first U.S. patient to have the disease and thus start the Ebola virus scare, has passed away today at the Dallas, Texas hospital where he has been quarantined after showing no signs of improvement. He recently went from serious to critical before losing his battle.

That now brings to question, how do we bury him and any others who will die from the Ebola virus. The CDC is scrambling for answers, and as of now have given the following information to the Dallas hospital:

Medical staff is not to clean the body
No tubes or medical accessories are to be removed from the body
Body must be placed in a plastic shroud
Body must then be double bagged
No autopsy
No embalming
No open casket funerals

The CDC assures emergency technicians that at this point the body will be safe for transport to a funeral home to either be cremated or buried. They also say that if the family wants to do a traditional burial that a hermetically sealed casket must be used, but they recommend cremation to make sure all microorganisms are killed.

My question is this: If the CDC says it's not an 'airborne" disease, why are they so adamant about an air-tight casket, which funeral homes say are impossible to do anyway. Wouldn't it just be safer to say that any person who dies from the Ebola virus MUST be cremated, just to play it safe, or does religion come into play for those who want a traditional casket burial.

But again, the family will never be allowed to see their loved ones anyway once they are admitted to a hospital... there will be no open casket funerals, period.

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