Funerary Rituals in Greece: From Antiquity to the Time of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Handling the body of the deceased is a social event which is almost solidly connected with the Orthodox Christian tradition in modern Greek society. In the last few years handling the body of the deceased was mainly constricted to the Orthodox funeral and burial until recently and that collides with the practical commands which reinforced the issue of cremation/ burning of the body of the deceased.