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Comment: My aged mother, who adores travel, no longer ventures out of the
U.S. because someone told her that if you die in Europe or elsewhere, they will not allow you to be shipped to the U.S. for burial but that you must be cremated due to health reasons. Is this true? |
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From US Customs and Border Protection:
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And from the CDC: Quote:
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My BIL's mother died in England and is buried here. So I knew this was false even without Joe's research (although thank you for that).
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Actually my thought was about the soldiers' coffins returning from Afghanistan. I expect that the soldiers are not cremated.
I expect that many do choose cremation as the travel costs are much cheaper. |
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The "they" referenced in the OP is ambiguous. Who is it that supposedly won't allow the shipping of uncremated corpses, the originating country or the receiving country?
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Good point. I'm not sure you can predict the answer from the return of military bodies. I seem to recall there were some interesting hoops at the English end for my BIL's mother, involving the English equivalent of the Department of State.
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Thought this was going to be abouthis article
"After two strikingly similar women died in St. Maarten in late November, a grim mix-up caused a Barrie family to unknowingly mourn — and then cremate — the wrong body. The family of Kathleen Togwell didn’t realize that the beloved Barrie matriarch was not in the casket during her funeral last December. Togwell, 82, died of natural causes while vacationing in St. Maarten." |
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