In this country it is legal to marry dead person

Posthumous marriage(or necrogamy) is a marriage in which one of the participating members is deceased. It is legal in France and similar forms of marriage are conducted in Sudan and China also. France had a hundred of requests for each year from World war I, which many have been accepted.

France is currently the world’s capital of posthumous matrimony. A simple ceremony is then held in which a woman/man will often stand next to a picture of deceased fiance while the ceremony is taking place. The phrase “till death do us part” is eliminated and “I do” is replaced with “I did.”

A few women"s were married by use of proxy to soldiers that had died in world war I. This practice came to be called as posthumous marriage. Posthumous marriage became legal in France by Article 171 of the civil code which states: "The President of the Republic may, for serious reasons, authorize the solemnization of marriage if one of the spouses died after completion of official formalities marking it unequivocal consent. In this case, the effects of marriage dated back to the day preceding the death of the husband. However, this marriage does not entail any right of intestate succession for the benefit of the surviving spouse and no matrimonial property is deemed to have existed between the spouses”.

The rules for the posthumous marriage: In France who wants to file for posthumous marriage sends a request to the President of France, who forwards it to the Justice Minister, who forwards it to the prosecutor for the surviving member’s district.

If the couple had originally planned on getting married and the family of the deceased approves, the prosecutor sends the application back to the President. One out of every four applicants for posthumous marriage is rejected.

After a posthumous marriage, the living spouse becomes a widow or widower. It also shows the strength of an individual to overcome a fiance death.