I am Russian, my wife is Tatar. How should we be buried?translated

Reader question:

I am Russian, my wife is Tatar, we have lived together for 52 years to date. They made and raised two children and have grandchildren. Now, with age, a difficult question arises: how to bury us? We all walk under God. At different cemeteries or at one?

Victor

Priest's answer:

Archpriest Mikhail SAMOKHIN

Press Secretary of the Pyatigorsk and Circassian diocese;  Head of Information and Publishing Department; head of the missionary department of the Pyatigorsk and Circassian diocese.

Hello, Victor.

Part of whether you will be buried next to your spouse or not may depend on you. The majority of religious cemeteries in our country are Muslim, and there are fewer Orthodox, other Christian and Jewish cemeteries. At the same time, almost everywhere there are common cemeteries where most people are buried without distinction of religion.

If it is important for you to remain close to your spouse, you may well make a joint will with her so that you will be buried nearby in a common, non-religious cemetery. But whether your last will will be fulfilled, unfortunately, depends entirely on your relatives and loved ones. At the same time, the very fact of written expression of such a will may have for them...