Friday, March 20, 2015

Mortuary Services Provided By International Mortuary Shipping Companies

By Lelia Hall


With the world becoming a global village, your family and some of friends may move abroad for better job opportunities, to further their education or to have a good time with their families. If unfortunately the die where still abroad, you may find it hard to plan the shipping of their remains back home for burial. It may take a while to obtain necessary documents and plan for a sendoff at home. Luckily, there are international mortuary shipping companies who might be of help during these hard times.

These companies have a wide network of offices and have appointed representatives in other regions to work with them. This enables give their services to as many areas of the world as possible. When you hire an international shipping company, it checks the home regulations on transportation of human remains and complies with them before transporting the body.

Several authorities around the world require a signed and filed death certificate before they give the nod. The family should keep information requested as accurate as possible to make the service smoother. Once this is done, the consulate at the home country embassy certifies that whatever has been filled is accurate. The embassy then allows the body to be taken back to the deceased home country.

Furthermore, there are countries that require special units to be employed to ship human remains. The shipping company goes through the specific regulations using their representative on the ground and communicates the part that need to be fulfilled by the company. After 9/11 attacks in USA, several regulations have been placed on flights between certain cities. Furthermore, there are certain times where it is not allowed to transport cargo to certain destinations. Thus, when planning for the funeral, you should consider possible flight delays.

Several international, mortuary shipping companies give a whole solution that encompasses the cost of removing the body where it is located, preservation of the body awaiting transport, compliance to legal requirements, licensing and delivery of a body to the nearest airport. Others may charge a little more to bring the remains to nearest town or local morgue or to have the remains of your loved one further prepared.

You may sit and decide to have the body of your loved one cremated. This practice is gaining popularity among different societies around the world. There is also some regulations that have to be complied to before this is done. This may also delay the delivery of cremated remains to home. Cremation will cost you a little cheaper than bring the body home.

It is okay to have a local graveside service provider. However, the service may be cheaper if you procured it from the company that did the shipping of the body as part of the whole service. Interment is charged as a separate service. Ask for the pricing from the mortuary service provider.

It is good to compare services offered by several international shipping companies before settling on one of them. Ask for quotes and evaluate services and costs allocated You may also ask for the cost of add on services. Finally pick the service provider with local presentation.




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