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This state's status: Hawaii does not restrict the right of families to care for their own dead.

Searchable Online General Statutes

Hawaii Revised Statutes and Bills

Resources Specific to Funeral Law

There is no Hawaii State Funeral Board. The International Conference of Funeral Service Examining Boards provides the following contact information for Hawaii:

Rex N. Mitsunaga, Program Manager
Sanitation Branch - Department of Health
591 Ala Moana Boulevard
Honolulu, HI 96813
Office: 808-586-8000
Fax: 808-586-8040
E-Mail: susan.barcena@doh.hawaii.gov

The Department of Commerce and Community Affairs licenses those who sell cemetery and funeral preneed services. (external link)

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

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 or licensing divisions 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). 

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 Hawaii. Or if there is none, write a summary document regarding your findings to share here! (See North Carolina and South Carolina for examples.)

Organizations and Individuals

Funeral Consumers Alliance of Hawaii
P.O. Box 11949
Honolulu, HI 96828
808-638-5580
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According to Funeral Consumers Alliance, this affiliate chapter is struggling to maintain services without sufficient member involvement. If you would volunteer to be the chapter's resource person with regard to home funerals, no doubt the chapter leadership would be most grateful!

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 Hawaii. Please include contact information (phone, website, email).