Egypt - A Sharia court has ruled that having sex with a wife up to six hours after her death is to become legal again.
The announcement comes after scholars cited pre-Islamic era practices described in the famous 1550BC necrophiliacs' marriage guidance manual - er...funerary text! - The Book of the Grateful Dead.
This allowed a bit of quickie legover in the privacy of a pyramid burial chamber as long as all four limbs remained attached to the actual corpse.
However the practice eventually fell out of fashion until the early 19th century when the 'petit mort' ['small death'] rule was briefly resurrected under Napoleonic Rule and Egyptians took the French euphemism for orgasm to heart.
Today's judgement effectively lifts the stigma from the one-last-poke-for-hubby routine while upholding a ban on women's reciprocal rights.
Lawyers argued successfully that RIP sex is already endemic in various parts of the world and may even be beneficial for the afterlife.
An official Justice Ministry-sponsored teaching video may be released as a tool to educate the masses.
