Referrals to a licensed funeral director or other care provider in your area are available upon request. In the state of Michigan, a licensed funeral director is required to transport the body and sign the death certificate.
For more information about "home funerals" and "caring for your own dead," please consult one of the following websites:
A Sacred Moment
Crossings
Final Passages
Funeral Consumers Alliance
Funeral Consumers Information Society
Passing Through our Hands
Undertaken with Love
The following links contain personal stories of those who have cared for their own dead at home after death:
NY Times article, July 20, 2009
Joanne Macy's story
Also available at some libraries is the following PBS special about caring for your own dead:
A Family Undertaking
Other Links:
