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Post Mortem should not be made mandatory for people of Muslim & Jewish faiths

Submitted on Saturday 21st March 2020

Rejected on Tuesday 14th April 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

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Post Mortem should not be made mandatory for people of Muslim & Jewish faiths

Petition Details

Please do not make Post Mortem mandatory and a requirement for people of Muslim & Jewish faiths amid this current covid19 crisis before burial

Additional Information

We try to bury our deceased as quickly as possible, doing post Mortem first and foremost is completely prohibited against our faith and secondly will only delay the burial of our deceased. Please respect our faith.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

You may wish to sign this petition which calls for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/305167

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