(Photos) Ferdous Kaviani's funeral

Haoma being a plant emblematic of immortality, a few drops of the water prepared with its juice by the priests performing the Haoma ceremony in the Fire-temples, are gently thrown into the mouth of the dying person.[4] Sometimes the juice of a few grains of pomegranate, which is considered essential in some of the Parsi ceremonies, is dropped into the mouth of the dying person. A short time after death, the body of the deceased is washed whole throughout with water, and a white clean suit of cotton clothes is put over him.