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Is a funeral director able to let family take the body for home burial?
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∙ 11y ago
Not being aware of where from you're asking this question, it's rather difficult to answer correctly. However, in many instances, arrangements can be made with a funeral director to bring the deceased 'home' for vigil or a wake. Sometimes this is done with only a closed coffin. In other instances, it may be possible to offer with an open casket/coffin day.
In some cultures, it is appropriate, although not done as often today, for the funeral director to bring the deceased 'home' the night before the scheduled funeral. The following day the cortège begins at the home, where the hearse departs from home, enroute to the cemetery, chapel, or church. Mourners may be either invited to arrive at the home to join the cortège, or travel direct to the church/chapel/graveside, etc., to greet the arriving hearse and family.
If your question is more detailed, such as your rights to remove the deceased from the funeral facility, transporting the body to another location, then the answers vary widely depending on the country and possibly, province, state, territory, county, or district in which you live. Besides general logistics and hygiene issues, which may be regulated by different governmental authorities, there is the very real practicalities of doing such a thing. God's mandate advances rapidly and as such, the heartfelt and sincere intentions you or the family have, may be replaced with repulse, Horror, and distress, leaving a mental picture from which few of you would ever forget.
Under almost every circumstance, I cannot recommend, encourage, or endorse such an endeavour, no matter how sincere the intentions. But in general, many country's laws do not prohibit you from doing so. First, ask the local funeral director and see what, if any, advice they may be able to offer. If not pleased with their response, contact your local health authority and possibly, depending on where you are, a funeral director's governing organisation for that locale.
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It really depends on the family of the deceased. Sometimes the spouse will make the arrangements if they are able to do this while they are in their grieving period. Often times it will fall to the oldest male child in the family.
