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A kiss of affection can also take place after death.

In Genesis it is written that when Jacob was dead, " Joseph fell upon his father's face and wept upon him and kissed him.

" And it is told of Abu Bakr, Muhammad's first disciple, father-in-law, and successor, that, when the prophet was dead, he went into the latter's tent, uncovered his face, and kissed him.

Nyrop writes that " the kiss is the last tender proof of love bestowed on one we have loved, and was believed, in ancient times, to follow mankind to the nether world.