Does Everyone Deserve a Burial?

It’s been nearly three weeks since his death, but it remains unclear where the body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev will be buried.

The Associated Press reports that while Tsarnaev's mother says she wants the body returned to Russia, the funeral director in charge of Tsarnaev’s body believes the country will not accept the body.

The funeral home director, Peter Stefan, said he plans to ask for a burial in the city where Tsarnaev lived, but officials in Cambridge, Mass., are urging him not to do so.

"The difficult and stressful efforts of the citizens of the City of Cambridge to return to a peaceful life would be adversely impacted by the turmoil, protests, and wide spread media presence at such an interment," Cambridge City Manager Robert Healy said in a statement Sunday.

Tsarnaev's body was initially taken to one funeral home, where it was greeted by about 20 protesters, according to the Associated Press, before being taken to Stefan's Graham Putnam and Mahoney Funeral Parlors.

The 26-year-old Tsarnaev died April 19 from "gunshot wounds of torso and extremities," the result of a gunfight with authorities and his body being dragged under a vehicle driven by his younger brother, who fled the scene. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was captured a day later.

Does everyone deserve a burial? Should cities be allowed to refuse a burial permit?

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