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

Searchable Online General Statutes

Kansas Statutes

Resources Specific to Funeral Law

State Board of Mortuary Arts (external link)

State Board of Mortuary Arts Rule Book (external link)

State Board of Mortuary Arts Legislation Page (external link)

We applaud the Kansas State Board of Mortuary Arts for its transparency vis-a-vis its legislative activities! These links were supplied to us by its executive secretary, Mack Smith.

Department of Health and Environment (external link)

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

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 Kansas. 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 Greater Kansas City (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?

Bev McGill, president of Funeral Consumers Alliance of Greater Kansas City, says her chapter has identified a local funeral home that will assist in home funerals, doing as little as the family requests of them, such as only assisting with arranging death certificates, or more if desired. Her chapter doesn't presently have a board member well versed in home funerals, but she would welcome the involvement of a home funeral advocate who would like to offer this expertise to the chapter.

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