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Our daf ends as we begin Perek X with another new Mishna. We learn that a widow is sustained by the property of orphans. They own any earnings that she receives, and they are not responsible for her burial. Her heirs inherit her ketuba and they look after the cost of her burial.
The Mishnah states that although the heirs of the husband (the Yesomim) must support their father's widow, they do not inherit her property and therefore they are not obligated to bury her.
Instead, after she dies, her own heirs (that is, those who inherit her Kesuvah) are obligated to bury her.
RASHI explains that the Gemara earlier (47b) teaches that a woman's husband is obligated to bury her only because he inherits her Kesuvah (the "Nichsei Tzon Barzel").
Now that the husband is dead, he is not going to inherit her and thus his heirs do not keep the Nichsei Tzon Barzel, and "she must bury herself.”
We explore the status of widowhood from talmudic sources down to status of sephardi women, and Avraham Grossman’s analysis of the takanot of Rabbeinu Gershon.