On Sunday, August 28, 2011 I received a call from my friend Vladimir Grygorinko, Subdeacon and close spiritual son of Archbishop DMITRI of Dallas and the South (Orthodox Church in America). He was calling to tell me that Vladyka DMITRI had just died. The Archbishop had been failing for several weeks. About a week earlier […]

I just received a question from a reader asking if it is illegal to transport a body across state lines. This is a line often used by funeral directors to discourage people from do-it-yourself funerals. As stated in A Christian Ending, there are NO Federal Laws regulating funerals or the transport of bodies across state lines. There […]