Thursday, April 10, 2014

Facts About Using International Funeral Shipping Services

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.

It is not easy to hold a funeral because of the costs involved and the legislation that governs a number of aspects of holding such an event. Not everyone knows about the process of transporting a corpse and it is not advisable to rely on a local mortuary that does not know how to carry out mortuary shipping. To avoid additional costs and unnecessary delays, grieving family members can utilize the services of companies or funeral homes that offer international funeral shipping services.

Firms that help the bereaved to ship the remains of their loved ones are able to coordinate everything on your behalf. With their contacts, expertise and knowledge, they can guarantee you the dignified and safe transportation of the remains of your relative at a fair price. The fees they charge include the costs of collecting and removing the deceased, embalming his or her body, filing relevant documents, delivering it to the airport and departure from the same.

After you call a company that ships human remains internationally, it will make arrangements to collect the body of the deceased from the place where he or she died and move it to a mortuary. It then collects the materials needed to ship a body such as a sealer casket and a shipping container. It coordinates all the local, state and consulate paperwork of the receiving country as well as handles the booking of flights.

People who want to ship the remains of their relative also need to work with a local funeral home. This mortuary will help them collect caskets, handle import procedures and manage ongoing funeral arrangements. It is wise to work with a well established mortuary that has adequate experience in shipping bodies internationally. Such mortuaries usually have important contacts in many nations.

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.

It can cost you up to 10,000 dollars to ship a corpse. Some funeral homes that specialize in transporting corpses may charge about 3,800 to 5,500 dollars depending on the country the remains are being shipped to. This does not include the fees charged by an airline, which may range from 1,200 to 4,500 dollars.

Many companies that transport human remains internationally can also assist you to make arrangements for a direct cremation after which they will ship the urn containing the ashes to your homeland. A basic cremation may cost you about one thousand dollars. You will be charged much less to ship the urn.




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