Liberman v. Riverside Memorial Chapel, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Nardelli, J.
Many forms of honoring and respecting the mysteries of life and death are found among the religious and nonreligious alike. "So God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” (Genesis, ch 1, verse 27.) Millennia after these words were *285transcribed, many religions continue to hold the belief that humans have been created in the image of the Almighty. In a more secular vein, Walt Whitman, our great American poet and fellow New Yorker, wrote in Leaves of Grass, "If anything is sacred the human body is…
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