Isidora Zamora scripsit:
> Orthodox Christians do not
> cremate those who have fallen asleep for this very reason. It's not that
> God cannot resurrect a body which has been completely destroyed, as by
> modern methods of cremation, because He can, but it is shows disrespect to
> God to go to a great deal of trouble to destroy something that you know He
> is planning to use again.
It will be destroyed in any event, unless the general resurrection comes
within a century or so.
> But you are right that even people who do not have the reasons that I do
> for having cemetaries have a psycological attatchment that causes them to
> care about graves.
My family has always cremated its dead (for the last few generations
at least), and we feel quite strongly about it for various reasons.
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