Short Preliminary Considerations on some Funeral Arrangements in the Light of Government Decision no. 741/2016

Abstract

Nowadays, the new ʻTechnical and Health Rules regarding the funeral services, burial, cremation, transport, exhumation, and reburial of human corpses, cemeteries, human crematoriums, and also the professional criteria that must be met by the providers of funeral services, govern some key aspects following one’s death. For a better understanding of this new legislation concerning the death care industry, this short overview attempts, on the one hand, to highlight certain aspects of the present-day configuration of thanatopraxy, burial, cremation, and funerals, and on the other hand, to examine the effectiveness of determining one’s own funeral.