Leprosy Mailing List – February 6, 2015
Ref.: (LML) Burial customs of leprosy patients in past and present
From: Jingquan Wang, Wukang,Deqing Zhejiang, China
Dear Pieter,
Greetings from China.
I have read Professor Charlotte's tip of "Burial customs of leprosy patients in the past and present", published on Feb 4, 2015 in LML.
I provide some clues below:
I am a doctor working in a leprosy colony in Zhejiang, China. I have worked here for 12 years. In our colony, most of the ex-patients have to be buried here. Most of the relatives are reluctant to let the dead return to their home village and be buried near the family graveyard, even though they have gotten the news of the dead relatives. In the 90ties the government began to ask the people to adopt cremation. However, most of the public refuse to get cremation when they are dead. It is our colony that first implemented cremation; the first three cremations in our country happened in our colony. Now most of the dead people are first cremated and then buried in our colony cemetery. None of our dead people are buried in the public cemetery of our county.
In addition, I have supervised leprosy control work of Sichuan and Tibet regions of China. I have heard that the celestial or sky burial is a funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed on a mountaintop to decompose while exposing to the elements or to be eaten by scavenging animals, especially birds of prey. Sky burial are the popular burial style in the Tibetan areas there, but leprosy affected people are forbidden to use celestial burial They have to use the inferior burial: inhumation or burial in the ground.
I wish my information will be of any help to Professor Charlotte's research.
Best regards
Jingquan Wang, Bachelor of Medicine
Chief Physician and Deputy Director
Inpatient Department
Institute of Dermatology of Zhejiang Province,
China,313200
No. 61,Wuyuan Street,Wukang,Deqing,313200，Zhejiang,China.
Academic Secretary of China Leprosy Association since 2010
Science Communication Expert of Leprology of China Association for Science and Technology since 2013
Phone:86-0572-8296002
Fax:86-0572-8061517
E-mail:Jingquanwang.cn@hotmail.com, wjingquan@126.com
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