Many religions take the bodies of the dead people to the mortuary before proceeding for burial.
Here is where the dead bodies are preserved. Before their bodies are put in the mortuary refrigerators, they are washed.
Washing of dead bodies is very important that even religions that don’t take their dead people to the mortuary will still wash those bodies.
Washing of the dead is one way of preparing the dead for burial. Some people believe that washing the Dead removes the state of ritual impurity.
They believe that because death marks the end of people’s life on earth, washing the dead prepares the beginning of another life.
Other people believe that death marks the end of one stage and hence, washing the dead is a way of purification before any act of worship.
That is why dead bodies are washed even if the people didn’t die in a road accident or in a dirty condition.
Because many people fear the dead, they take dead bodies to the mortuary where they are washed and they pay for this service.
