Monday, April 14, 2014

Essential Information About Utilizing 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.

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.

After contacting a company that ships human remains, it will collect the body of your relative from where he or she passed on and take it to a mortuary. Afterwards the company will collect the items needed to ship a body like shipping containers and sealer caskets. It then coordinates all the state, local and documents required by the country that is receiving the remains of the deceased. It also books 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 internationally are the form of transport chosen and the destination. People who have lost a loved one can choose to transport his or her remains by land or by air. The cost of transporting human remains also vary based on whether the remains are cremated or none cremated.

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.

Most enterprises that ship human remains also assist their clients to arrange a basic cremation. They make arrangements for the body to be cremated in the country where a person died and ship the ashes to his or her country. The average cost of cremating a body is one thousand dollars. Shipping cremated human remains usually costs less than 1000 dollars.




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