My Mother Died — the Celebration of Life — And yours?

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I didn’t do an exhaustive search, just a quick one. I may have missed something. I also only searched for changes in the most recent changes made in August 2024, I didn’t go back several years.

Borrowed from another forum (emphasis retained from original):

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Section 29.7 of the General Handbook used to include the following exemption for funerals and weddings: “However, members may save a recording of the video stream of a funeral service or wedding for personal use.”

This exemption was removed when the Church introduced “Simplified instructions for streaming and holding virtual meetings” in August, 2024. Now the Handbook only says “Stream recordings of ward and stake meetings should be deleted within one day after the meeting.”

Section 29.5.4 of the handbook talks about funeral services. A funeral service is considered a church meeting when it is either conducted in a church building or when it is conducted by a member of the bishopric or stake presidency, even if it is not held in a church building. That would make a funeral fall under the one day retention of recordings policy.

I think the one day retention of recordings policy was probably more related to steams of sacrament meetings. You can go on youtube and find a few recordings of sacrament meetings of random wards going back several years. My guess is that the intent of the policy was to get members to clean up those recordings.

I don’t know whether there were any policy changes related to dressing the deceased. Section 38.5.10 touches on that subject. Here’s a link to that policy:

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/general-handbook/38-church-policies-and-guidelines?lang=eng#title_number237” class=”bbcode_url”>https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/general-handbook/38-church-policies-and-guidelines?lang=eng#title_number237

I’m not sure what the policy said before, but it may have changed to either include details about how the temple clothing is placed on the deceased (meaning it wasn’t outlined before because it was too taboo to discuss outside the temple) or it may have changed to reflect the changes to the endowment (e.g. the hat is no longer tied to the robe).

Edit:

I found references to changes to policy from about two years ago where they removed some language making it sound as if cremation was discouraged and they added language indicating that it was up to the individual.

It’s not related to dress, but it was another recent-ish change I came across.

[Anonymous]

This is the quote I was looking for: (Thanks nibbler)

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Temple Burial Clothing

If possible, deceased members who are endowed should be buried or cremated in temple clothing. If cultural traditions or burial practices make this inappropriate or difficult, the clothing may be folded and placed next to the body.

I will be talking to my wife soon about what I want when I die.

It looks like I have the option to not be dressed in temple clothing & have them in the casket.

Then I can get dressed on the other side?

It seems to be getting to the point where we need to look into the General Handbook for most aspects of our life.

It seems to be coming the next Standard Work in our library for church.

If you have a question look to the General Handbook.

(I wonder if anyone has quoted from it in a Sacrament Talk. I wouldn’t be surprised.)

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