Home Funerals

Home Funerals offer a deeply personal and intimate way to say goodbye, allowing families to gather in a familiar or significant setting that reflects your person’s life and values. Life Rites specialises in creating bespoke experiences that honour your wishes. Our approach ensures every ceremony is as unique as the individual it celebrates. All aspects of a funeral can happen in a home setting, and can also be preceded by a home vigil.

Funerals at home can include:

• Having your person laid out for a home vigil

• Decorating the coffin at home

• Holding ceremony at home

Our Home Funeral services in Sydney are fully customisable rather than packages; below is a low-end sample costing for ease of consideration only:

• Sample Costing for a Home Funeral

  • Transfer to Life Rites, in hours - $357.50

  • Essential Body Care - $286.00

  • Transfer to Home, in hours - $412.50

  • Life Rites Cool Plate Home Vigil Package* - $825.00
    *Includes Life Rites Doula Attendant for 3 hours

  • Cremation Certificates, est. - $165.00

  • Coffin; LifeArt DIY White- $422.00

  • RSVP page on our website - no charge

  • Private Cremation Fee - $695.00

  • BDM Death Certificate - $73.70

  • Life Rites Funeral Direction; per 'Life Rites Chapel Service with Cremation fee' - $1, 375.00

  • Life Rites Ceremonial Services, for a simple service - $880.00

  • Ongoing monthly Grief Circle - gift

  Subtotal - $5, 491.70

  Life Rites Company Fee, based on 40% of the above actual costs; covers administration and overheads - $2, 196.68

  Total - $7, 688.38