there had been nothing but her body , which they had buried , a practice the undertaker had gently tried to dissuade him as american and impractical , but having found no family of kumiko 's to contradict him , he 'd bought her a new dress , a new overcoat and the closest thing he could find to the suitcase she always carried to bury alongside her , though her burns were so bad he had n't been allowed to see her body .