Right to burial of corpse.

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(1) All members of the families belonging to a parish shall have the right to be buried in the cemetery where their ancestors were buried.
(2) The relatives of the deceased member of a parish may forego funeral services in church or its cemetery or opt for funeral services at any other premises by a priest of their choice. Explanation.—For the purpose of this section member of a family belonging to a parish includes descendants of all persons who have been buried in that cemetery but shall not include those who have left the faith of Orthodox-Jacobite Church and have embraced other denominations of Christian Church or other religions.

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