Fatwa Committee Prefers Virtual Autopsy

SHAH ALAM, April 6 (Bernama) -- The National Fatwa Committee favours the virtual autopsy for Muslims as it doesn't involve physical incisions on the dead body.
Perak Mufti Datuk Seri Harussani Zakaria said the committee is still studying its feasibility before proclaiming an edict.
"We are still studying the method to see how far it corresponds to Islam that forbids the abuse of dead bodies and the feasibility of its implementation," he said at the National Fatwa Committee and the Media discussion programme here, Wednesday night.
Other than Harussani, the panel members were the Malaysian National News Agency's (Bernama) Editor in Chief Datuk Azman Ujang and Deputy Director (Operations) Islamic Development Department (Jakim) Datuk Wan Mohamad Sheikh Abdul Aziz.
The virtual autopsy method utilises the computerised CT Scan that eliminates the need for physical incisions on dead bodies to ascertain the cause of death.