The nurse recognizes that the family of a deceased Buddhist client will:
1. Bury before sundown
2. Decline viewing the body
3. Not move the body until it is cold
4. Select cremation rather than burial
ANS: 3
Some Buddhists may refuse to move the dead body after death because of their belief that the spirit of the dead takes some time to leave the body. They define death as the absence of con-sciousness and loss of body warmth. Among Orthodox Jews, the body is generally buried before sundown. Some Asian Indians regard seeing the deceased as adding to the suffering of the fam-ily. Hindus and Buddhists believe that the soul lives on and the dead body without the soul is but an empty shell, and therefore may not want to see the body. Muslims prefer burial rather than cremation.
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