It is the living witness that abortion is as much a sin as any other murder, because life in the light of the resurrection is revealed to us in all its entirety as sacred. The resurrection of Christ also means that God remembers with an everlasting memory, and that He preserves every creature, especially reason-endowed beings, for eternity. We Christians greet each other with this holy greeting because the resurrection of Christ bestows and reveals the sanctity of the human body. It is a testimony that just as abortion is a sin, as is every murder, so also is cremation a sin. Whoever cremates the dead, whoever steals relics in this way, shows their lack of faith in the living God and in the resurrection of the dead.
Cremation represents a hidden desire for self-destruction and the destruction of mankind.
Had Christ not risen, there would be no holy relics. Holy relics are human remains filled with the warmth and power of the risen Christ. By the resurrection Christ's tomb became a life-bearing tomb. From this we learn that our human graves are doors to eternal life, and not places of decomposition and dissolution. This is why Christians have for centuries gathered around His life-bearing tomb in Jerusalem, and then around the graves of their forebears.