Q. When my spouse died recently, I was told that I needed to take in clothes to the funeral home so they could dress him even though he was being cremated. They told me that I was required to identify his remains although I thought that was done at the hospital. Did I have to do that?
A. No. If you chose to have a private or public viewing of his body, the funeral home would have wanted to dress him for you, but there is absolutely no requirement for you to have a viewing or to identify his remains. His remains would have been identified at the time the funeral home picked him up.