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Good Funeral Guide — Looking After the Body of Someone Who Has Died

The Good Funeral Guide

A compassionate, practical guide to keeping a body at home after death: legal rights, cooling, washing, dressing, and how long it is safe to keep the body at home. Written to empower families and doulas to take an active role in after-death care.

Helps when

  • after death care and laying out
  • washing and laying out the body
  • what to do in the hours immediately after a death

Shelved under

Bereavement & after-death care · Home death

Signposting, not medical advice