Every soul shall taste death. Then to Us you will be returned.1 To each human being brought into the life of this world, the Creator granted particular mental and physical abilities, all of which will finally be taken back from him at death, if not before. One's time for decision and action will then be over, and only a bequest2 enables him to direct certain of his affairs for a limited period thereafter. Now completely helpless, the deceased is unable to do anything further for himself. He cannot, in fact, even attend to his most pressing worldly need of the moment: the cleansing and concealment of the body he left behind, being totally dependent for that service upon others. From the instant of death, the deceased is in need of assistance