If someone you loved passes on and goes through a traditional burial, you would typically use a hearse to transport their casket and remains. When you have them go through cremation in Carver, MN, how do you transport their remains? There are a number of factors that determine the method. Depending on where you live and where you want the remains to end up, you have plenty of options that are usually much easier than a hearse. Check with your state authorities or the state in which you are traveling to make sure you know what’s allowed. In the meantime, this guide can help you get started on the process. And it all starts with finding the right urn for cremation.
Car Transportation
It’s easy enough to drive anywhere you want to go with an urn and your loved one’s remains safely tucked into the vehicle. There aren’t regulations about taking ashes across state lines, but you may want to consider a heavy-duty urn that won’t break if it tips over. You’ll also want to set it in a tight box with protective material wrapped around it. You may take a death certificate along with you, just in case, but you shouldn’t need it.
Plane Transportation
It is more complicated to travel by air and the regulations change frequently. You’ll want to check with the airline you have chosen before you fly Sometimes you can carry the cremains on and other times, you can’t. Know the policy of the airline you choose to avoid issues when you arrive at the airport. If you are allowed to carry on your loved one’s remains, the urn will have to pass through TSA. The urn will not be opened, but it will have to have no lead in it, so it can pass through an X-ray. You can get a burial to transmit permit from the funeral home to make security easier.
Mail Transportation
If you need to get your loved one’s remains to another family member and you can’t go along with the urn or ashes, you can mail the cremains through the USPS. There are certain rules regarding how to package the remains, such as an inner and outer container that is clearly marked. Things have to be sealed up and there is often a barrier recommendation between the inner and outer container. Your funeral home can help you with the correct packaging to meet all of the requirements, as can the USPS branch you choose.
One of the advantages of having traditional cremation is that there are many more transportation options involved. If you want your loved one to be buried at sea, but you don’t live near the ocean or if you want to take your loved one’s remains to other family members who are buried elsewhere, cremation service offers those transportation options. Contact Ballard-Sunder Funeral & Cremation, located at 833 Marschall Rd, Shakopee, MN 55379 to talk through the transportation hurdles you might have in order to get where you need to go with your loved one’s ashes. You can call us with your questions or to set up a cremation at (952) 445-1202.
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