Help When Someone Dies in Spain

If you have landed here, something difficult has just happened, and we are sorry. A relative has died in Spain, you are probably hundreds of miles away in the UK or Ireland, and you have just discovered that Spanish law gives you 48 hours to make decisions about burial, cremation or embalming. That is the part nobody warns British families about. There are around 400,000 Britons living in Spain in 2026, the population skews older, and several thousand British deaths happen there every year. Most families have no plan, no Spanish contacts, and no idea where to start. We are building Funerals Spain to fix exactly that. The site, when it opens, will give you a calm, plain English walkthrough of every step that has to happen in the first 48 hours, a vetted directory of English-speaking funeral directors in the regions where most expats live (Alicante, the Costa del Sol, Murcia, Valencia, the Balearics, the Canaries), realistic 2026 cost guidance for repatriation back to the UK or Ireland, and a single human you can phone when the consulate puts you on hold. Repatriation can run from €3,000 to well over €10,000 depending on where in Spain and whether you go burial or cremation, and a clear head about insurance claims and paperwork can save thousands. Leave your email below and we will send you the checklist while we finish the site.