Our belief in the resurrection of the body has implications for our burial practices. First all, canon law says that “deceased members of the Christian faithful must be given ecclesiastical funeral rites according to the norm of law” (c. 1176, §1). This states an obligation for the family members to see to it that church funeral rites are accorded to a deceased Catholic. It is sad to see a person who had been a daily Mass goer when living denied a Mass of Christian Burial after death because their adult children who have fallen away from the faith do not want to be bothered with a church funeral.