home burial for family??

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Does anyone know if there's a permit that one can attain to be buried on your own property?? Ilive in Penn. and would love to find out this info. Thanks!!

-- Michele Rae Padgett (Michelesmelodyfarm@yahoo.com), July 18, 2001

Answers

You have have state, city and county laws that will affect a burrial.

-- Gary (gws@redbird.net), July 18, 2001.

This depends on your states laws concerning home burial, call your local funeral home, they are most familair with the laws in your state. Here where we live, we have no restrictions against burial at home, just have to have a properly filled out death certificate, and the burial has to be held within three days of death, for obvious reasons! No permit required here in Ohio.

If you live in a rural area, I don't think there will be any problems doing this, but, ask your local funeral home director for sure!

-- Annie Miller in SE OH (annie@1st.net), July 18, 2001.


Michele, Go to the following site: http://www.funerals.org

They will help you with any questions you have. In Penn. they have five location across the state. This group is strickly NON-PROFIT and are not affillated to any funeral palor,cemetary,etc.

Yes, you can be bury on your property and you can have your own casket and you do not have to be embalmed if buried within 24 hrs.

Funerals are the biggest RIP-OFF ever thought of. If you want go to:

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Nebula/6037/coffin.htm or go to: http://www.carpentercasket.com/order.htm and click on home button.

-- TomK (tjk@cac.net), July 18, 2001.


At least in TN, a family burial plot needs to be surveyed and then separately recorded on a deed, perhaps with an easement as well. This may be as much to be able to find the cemetery in the future if it is not tended as much as anything else. Through the purchase of adjoining properties I own at least one and part of another.

I would be reluctant to take the word of a funeral home on burial requirements. They may tell you an certain type of casket and vault is required when that may not be the case.

Several states now allow casket stores which sell the same caskets at far, far less than funeral homes. It may well be you can build you own wooden casket. I've seen them offered in catalogs to where they serve as a bookcase until needed.

Personally, I think cremation with the scattering of the remains is the way to go. It can be just as personal as a formal funeral with internment.

-- Ken S. in WC TN (scharabo@aol.com), July 19, 2001.


Check the archives. People gave me some helpful answers when I asked a similair question. Books by Lisa Carlson about caring for your dead have information about each state. I got the book used from the net. There are two different ones, but the cheaper one has more info than you could imagine. Some states have restrictions on everything, even scattering of ashes! Like how could you get a disease from that??? Good luck! Cora-Vee (Contact me if you need clarification about the book)

-- Cora-Vee Caswell (coravee@locl.net), July 21, 2001.


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