The friends should be strongly advised to make wills
specifying that they want their funerals to be conducted under the auspices of
the Bahá'í Faith, or at least in conformity with its requirements and they
should make this known both to the Local Spiritual Assembly and to their own
relatives, while they are still alive. In this way it is quite possible that
agreements may be reached with non Bahá'í relatives before death takes place.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a letter from dated August 18, 1972; Developing
Distinctive Baha’i Communities, NSA of USA, 1998 edition)