Undertaken With Love

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This state's status: Connecticut restricts the right of families to care for their own dead. You may want to consider working with others to remove these restrictions, as Joyce Mitchell successfully did in Utah. A good place to start in Connecticut would be to contact Bill Donahoe.

Searchable Online General Statutes

Connecticut Statutes (external link)

Resources Specific to Funeral Law

Department of Health (external link)

Board of Examiners of Embalmers and Funeral Directors (external link)

In general, regulations promulgated by departments of health, such as required procedures in filing death certificates, must be followed by families caring for their own dead, while regulations promulgated by funeral service regulatory boards are binding only on funeral providers (but may affect home funerals indirectly to the extent that a family chooses to engage the limited services of licensed providers or in a few states is required to do so).

Please help us develop this section by emailing us with books or online sources specifically related to funeral law in Connecticut.

Resources Specific to Home Funeral Laws

Please help us develop this section by emailing us with books or online sources specifically related to home funerals in Connecticut. Or if there is none, write a summary document regarding your findings to share here! (See North Carolina and South Carolina for an example.)

Since Connecticut is one of the rare states that restrict the right of a family to care for its own dead, we especially welcome a paper that summarizes what these restrictions are, how they came about, and what if anything is being done to remove them.

Organizations and Individuals

Funeral Consumers Alliance of Connecticut (external link)

Bill Donahue is a home funeral advocate in Connecticut.

Please help us develop this section by emailing us with the names of organizations and individuals that serve as noncommercial resources to families serving as their own funeral directors in Connecticut. Please include contact information (phone, website, email).