Mandya, July 9 -- * Suspected COVID death: Cremation refused as villagers insist on lab report

* One village finally agrees to cremate outside its boundaries

Fear is robbing the dead of dignity. While there are many reports of many COVID Hospitals in cities and care homes abandoning and even leaving the dead on beds amid the Coronavirus pandemic, such incidents are now being reported in villages too where villagers are refusing to cremate the dead bodies inside their boundaries due to virus scare forcing the family members to shift the dead body from one place to another.

Before the outbreak of the pandemic, a death inside a village was treated as a great sorrow that has hit a village where every villager used to rush to the family's s...