THE FUNERAL IN TIMES OF COVID-19: WHERE IS THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN THE MEASURES NEEDED TO COMBAT THE PANDEMIC AND THE ORTHODOX CANONICAL NORMS?
THE FUNERAL IN TIMES OF COVID-19: WHERE IS THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN THE MEASURES NEEDED TO COMBAT THE PANDEMIC AND THE ORTHODOX CANONICAL NORMS?

Summary/Abstract: By an order of the Minister of Health dated 6.04.2020, the state authorities took a series of sanitary measures in the cases of people suffering from COVID 19 who died in hospital units, respectively banned the cosmetic and dressing manpower of their bodies, before to be placed in plastic bags. These procedures contradict the canonical tradition and norms, because, for Eastern Christians, the preparation of the body of the deceased for the funeral ritual has a special significance. In the Christian conception, death is only a stage that man must go through to enter eternity. This study aims to analyze the legal provisions adopted by the authorities of the temporal power in the fight against the pandemic and the impact they had on the rights and obligations of the families of the deceased, both from a canonical and secular national and international perspective.

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