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Greek Orthodox priests refuse to perform funeral services for those who choose cremation

Source: neoskosmos.com

October 24, 2019

Greek Orthodox priests of Thebes and Livadia, central Greece, said that they would refuse to perform funeral services for people who were cremated. They reasoned that the practice goes against the Christian belief in resurrection of the body and the second coming.

“We will not bury those who are cremated,” they said in a written statement. “The Church does not accept the incineration of the body for its members.”

The clerics released a message on Tuesday which states that the choice of cremation “indicates a lack of faith and hope as it means the complete annihilation and obliteration of man.”

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10/24/2019

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Met. Seraphim of Piraeus

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"What kind of relationship can a society have with Life when a society does not accept man in his sickness, his weakness and his death; when a society incinerates its dead; when a society destroys the remembrance of their lives and the reminder to Her members; when a society regards man’s beginning an artificial and selective one and his death a final and irrevocable one; when a society denies the breath of the eternal and entraps itself in the asphyxiation of the ephemeral?"