What You Need To Know About International Funeral Shipping

By Anita Ortega


People relocate to other countries for a number of reasons including recreation, work and serving their countries. Many people who have their loved ones in other countries never think about what would happen if they die until this happens. Transporting a body from a foreign country to your own can be an added burden to your funeral plans. You can find it stressful to deal with the laws of another country.

Funerals are not a simple affair especially when you consider that legislation governs several aspects of the process. You may not know how to transport human remains and it is not wise to rely on a local mortuary that is not experienced in mortuary shipping. This can result in unnecessary delays and additional costs. Fortunately, you can use the services of funeral homes and firms that specialize in international funeral shipping.

With the services of such a firm, you will be relieved of the burden that is involved in transporting caskets and urns internationally. Their connections and expertise enables them to offer safe and dignified transportation at reasonable prices. Mortuary shipping service providers collect the body, embalm it, fill relevant documents and deliver the body or ashes to the airport.

Companies that ship corpses make the necessary arrangements to collect the body or a person from the hospital or other place where he or she passed on and move it to a mortuary. They then gather the materials required to transport corpses like shipping containers and sealer caskets. These firms coordinate the state, local and consulate paperwork of the country where the body will be shipped and book international flights.

To ship the remains of your loved one, you also need to use the services of a funeral home at the destination airport. Such a mortuary should be able to handle the collection of human remains, the import protocol and manage ongoing arrangements for funerals. You should seek to work with a mortuary that is well established and is experienced in international mortuary shipping. Such a mortuary will already have strategic contacts in many countries.

The main factors that determine the cost of transporting human remains overseas are the destination and the type of transport you choose. Firms that provide mortuary transportation services offer both land and air transport. If you are transporting cremated remains, you will be charged less than a person who is transporting body.

You may have to pay up to 10,000 dollars for the shipping services. Some funeral homes that provide mortuary transportation services may ask you to pay about 3,800 to 5,500 dollars for their services and this depends on the country that the remains are being transported to. The airline fees that may lie between 1,200 and 4,500 are not included shipping charges.

Many firms that deal with transporting human remains overseas can also help you arrange a direct cremation in the country where your loved one passed away. They will then transport the ashes to his or her country. A basic cremation can cost about 1,000 dollars. The cost of transporting cremated remains will cost much less than this.




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