# Vaiṣṇava Etiquette Instructions from Śrīla Prabhupāda's letters about proper conduct and etiquette. --- ## Death ![[letters/1974/741106_gandharva|So you have done you duty at the last moments of your wife's life so that she could hear them chanting. As to where she has gone, that depends on what she was thinking of at the time of her passing away.]] —Gandharva, 6 November, 1974 ![[letters/1977/770103_amarendra|Regarding your question as to when the soul leaves the body, it is when the heart stops beating. Even if the brain has stopped functioning, if the heart is beating that means the soul is present.]] —Amarendra, 3 January, 1977 --- **[← Back to Śikṣāmṛta](wiki/compile/siksamrita)**