A collection of chronologically issued answers to some of the questions submitted by individual believers and institutions

8/26/2018

Burial requirements “now binding in the West” - 9 June 1974

For the burial of the dead the only requirements now binding in the West are to bury the body (not to cremate it), not to carry it more than a distance of one hour's journey from the place of death, and to say the Prayer for the Dead if the deceased is a believer over the age of 15. 
- The Universal House of justice  (From a letter dated 9 June 1974 to the National Spiritual Assembly of Iceland; compilation: The Compilation of Compilations vol. I)