death

By Matushka Donna Farley

The recent discovery in Georgia of a crematorium fraud has brought the reality of death and decay to TV screens in a way that most people have succeeded in eliminating from their consciousness entirely. The funeral industry has sanitized death and hidden its dreadful ravages upon the human body. Increasingly at non-Orthodox "funerals",  cremation has become trendy. There is no body present at the service to receive the final kiss, as it is in the Orthodox practice.