I had always wanted to experience washing a dead body. Not only would it be an honor, but it would also help me understand more about what will be one of my first experiences after my own death.
For a school project, I decided to make a video reflection on death, narrated by two women who regularly wash Muslim bodies in our Raleigh community.
I used this project as an opportunity to learn about the different aspects of death: I finally helped with a body, I visited the cadaver lab at my university’s medical school; I witnessed a burial for the first time.
Categories: Death