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This state's status: Nebraska 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

Nebraska Revised Statutes

Resources Specific to Funeral Law

Board of Funeral Directing and Embalming (external link)

Department of Health and Human Services (external link)

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

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

Since Nebraska is one of the rare states that restricts the rights of families to care for their own 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.

Organizations and Individuals

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

We especially need an individual in Nebraska who would keep tabs on changes in that state's funeral laws as they relate to home funerals and would keep us informed accordingly of changes needed on this page.