Undertaken With Love

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

Searchable Online General Statutes

Idaho Statutes (external link)

Resources Specific to Funeral Law

Mortician Board of Examiners Bureau of Occupational Licenses (external link)

Department of Health and Welfare (external link)

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

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).

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 Idaho. 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 Idaho (external link). Because FCA chapters are composed of volunteers, their expertise and experience related to home funeral laws vary considerably from one to the next. All of them, however, welcome home funeral practitioners and advocates and are eager to learn from them. If you find that you are accumulating knowledge that is lacking in your closest chapter, why don't you volunteer to be its resource for funeral consumers on home funeral laws in your state?

David Robles is a source for information about home funeral information in Idaho. He and his wife operate Bannock Pride, a company that makes preservative free wooden caskets, and he claims protecting and advocating for funeral consumers as a passion.

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