Undertaken With Love

A Home Funeral Guide for Congregations and Communities

State Laws Related to Home Funerals

Help us make this as useful a resource as possible by suggesting additional links to helpful people and websites in your state and contacting us with suggestions.

For information on federal laws affecting home funerals see our page on The Funeral Rule of the Federal Trade Commission.

To research local ordinances, such as the legality of burying on your own land where not otherwise prohibited by state law, consult the Municode site.

Undertaken With Love project coordinator Holly Stevens has an essay on home funerals in the congregation that appeared as a cover story in the October 6, 2009 issue of Christian Century, the leading magazine for seminary educated mainline Protestant religious leaders in the U.S. Read it here.

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