In a poignant gesture, a group of girls got their dead friend "married" to her boyfriend to fulfill her dying wish before going against tradition to perform the cremation themselves.
When 25-year-old orphan Madhu Verma died on Wednesday in hospital and her body was brought to the Subhash Nagar cremation ground in this central Indian city her friends decided to fulfill her last wish - to marry boyfriend Bunty.
They called Bunty to the crematorium and performed a brief marriage ceremony after which they cremated her - a task not traditionally performed by women in traditional Hindu society.
Madhu, who earned a living by working in a beauty parlour and as a clerk in the hostel where she stayed, died of tuberculosis Wednesday at the Kasturba Hospital where she had been admitted.
She had come to Bhopal five years ago from Ujjain where she was born and had spent the first 20 years of her life at Nari Niketan, a shelter for destitute women.
She was staying at a hostel for working women here for the past five years.
Since she had died of an illness, police did away with the post mortem examination and took the body to the crematorium.
"We rushed to the cremation ground as soon as we got the news of her death," said her friend Meena Singh. She is the warden of the hostel where Madhu was staying.
Via: Seema
When 25-year-old orphan Madhu Verma died on Wednesday in hospital and her body was brought to the Subhash Nagar cremation ground in this central Indian city her friends decided to fulfill her last wish - to marry boyfriend Bunty.
They called Bunty to the crematorium and performed a brief marriage ceremony after which they cremated her - a task not traditionally performed by women in traditional Hindu society.
Madhu, who earned a living by working in a beauty parlour and as a clerk in the hostel where she stayed, died of tuberculosis Wednesday at the Kasturba Hospital where she had been admitted.
She had come to Bhopal five years ago from Ujjain where she was born and had spent the first 20 years of her life at Nari Niketan, a shelter for destitute women.
She was staying at a hostel for working women here for the past five years.
Since she had died of an illness, police did away with the post mortem examination and took the body to the crematorium.
"We rushed to the cremation ground as soon as we got the news of her death," said her friend Meena Singh. She is the warden of the hostel where Madhu was staying.
Via: Seema
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