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ly three months following a car
accident in Florida.
The family friend noted that
the son, daughter and second
wife are each holding their own
shivas for the deceased man.
Machpelah, located on Wood-
ward Avenue north of Eight Mile
Road, was founded in 1911. It is
90 percent full.
Rabbi Levin of Hebrew Memo-
rial Chapel agreed that he's nev-
er encountered a similar case, but
"companion graves" are common
in Christian cemeteries. He
would not comment further on
the situation.
David Techner of the Ira Kauf-
man Chapel called last weeks de-
cision "a creative solution" to a
very sticky situation. He also has
never handled a burial like last
Friday's, but also said [stacked
burials are] more common in
non-Jewish cemeteries and in
states where there isn't a lot of
burial ground left.
Jewish law requires that a
body be buried as soon as possi-
ble, Mr. Techner noted, but he
said he isn't sure if Halachah ad-
dresses vertical burial.
"This is all brand-new stuff.
You never had the equipment
that could dig a grave that deep.
I think Jewish law says you have
to be buried in the ground; [he's]
in the ground," Mr. Techner said.
Attorney Bigelman said the
decision about where to bury the
man had to be made in three or
four business hours, and the sui-
cide on Thursday was discovered
just as he was about to begin dis-
cussions with the other attorney,
rabbi and cantor.
"Whether [vertical burials] are
legal or not is a research project
somebody has to undertake. It's
the kind of issue you could see
coming up again," he said Mr.
Bigelman noted that although
other funeral arrangements had
been made by the man and his
second wife, there was nothing
in writing.
However, the dispute "never '
got to the point where you had to
set legal principles against legal
principles because the timing re-
ally forced you into a settlement-
type issue," he said. "Right now,
you don't have the dilemma of
having two people in a vertical
line. You just have one man next
to another grave. We have the
luxury of time to see if there will
be a problem with that."
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