Field help: (2018) Funeral expenses This text refers to the Steuererklärung 2018. You can find the version for the Steuererklärung 2025 at: (2025): Funeral expenses Tick this box if you want to claim funeral expenses. This includes in particular:Transportation costsUndertaker's billsCosts for coffin, urn, cremation and burial at seaFees for the death certificate (Sterbeurkunde), death record (Totenschein)Cost of obituariesCosts for a pastor, parish clerks, organist, funeral speaker, coffin bearersCosts for a gravestone, tomb and inscription