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This state's status: Louisiana restricts the right of families to care for their own dead. You may want to consider becoming a home funeral advocate working to remove these restrictions as Joyce Mitchell successfully did in Utah. A good place to begin would be to contact Josh Slocum of Funeral Consumers Alliance.

Searchable Online General Statutes

Louisiana Laws

Resources Specific to Funeral Law

State Board of Embalmer & Funeral Directors (external link)

Department of Health and Hospitals (external link)

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

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 Louisiana.

Since Louisiana is one of the rare states that restrict the rights of families to care for their dead, we would welcome especially a document that summarizes what these restrictions are, how they came about, and what if anything is being done to remove them. Will you volunteer?

Organizations and Individuals

Funeral Consumers Alliance of the Southwest (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?

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

We especially need an individual who will agree to keep us updated of changes in Louisiana funeral laws that need to be reflected on this page.