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Even I'm not this cheap
ILs neighbor in Grand Junction had a mother who moved there from California to be in a nursing home close to her daughter.
Then died. But wished to be buried in California where she'd purchased a plot.
Daughter was cheap and didn't want to pay for the airlines to fly the body back, so she wrapped dead Mom in blankets, threw her in the car and drove her to California. And didn't want to leave her alone in the car so she took a portable potty.
Okay then. Someone has watched the Vacation movie a few too many times.
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Re: Even I'm not this cheap
Oh ... My ... God.
Wow. Just wow. I can't.
W.T.F.
I think the cost of shipping the body is a worthwhile expense.
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Holy wow.
I have to wonder if it was even legal. I'm pretty sure there are laws/regulations about transporting corpses, right? And I would imagine they differ from state to state and maybe even involve federal DOT regulations if you're talking about crossing multiple state lines.
Not to mention the gross factor. Of both the corpse and the portable potty. Ew.
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I guess I'm wondering how she even got the body. Would the mortuary or coroner even release a body to a family member directly?
And who helps them load it into the car? I can see one person being completely off their rocker, but having never moved one myself, I would imagine a body would take at least two people...
I was thinking along the same lines as LB. Is that even legal?!
It sounds like a story that should be on one of those crazy tv shows on Lifetime or something
Having just gone through this with my ILs.... it was $10K to move a body from NC to PA. They didn't want to pay so they had her cremated (against her wishes).
It is illegal to transport the body across state lines too, the funeral home would not release the body (as my Aunt-in-law really tried to do
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Wow, we must have gotten the deal of the century then. When DH's grandma died she was flown to THREE different funerals. And it wasn't more than $600 total.
You got the deal of the century. It's thousands of dollars to transport a body, by air or by train/truck. I can't believe 600 dollars.
This is what I was thinking? Maybe the body wasn't reported. Either way this post creeps me out.
Good question, because it ain't that interesting!
I have no idea how much it costs to ship a body, but I do remember it being something in the thousands of dollars when grandma died, but that was several years ago and from an expensive city to fly in and out of anyway.
The woman in question here is practical and hearty farm stock. Wouldn't suprise me a bit if she did it alone, and that in a small town, people don't worry nearly as much about red tape.
But yeah, creepy.
It was xp'd on money matters. Not sure if anywhere else.
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Ewwww - I had a hard enough time driving the 4 hours from Salt Lake City to Idaho with the cremains of DH's Grandpa to his funeral. It just creeped me out for some reason. Can't even imagine an entire dead body.
His Grandma seems to think that when she dies the funeral home is going to drive her body from here to Idaho and that we are going to follow in another car. Um, yeah, no. She is going to be shipped by airplane and we'll fly up there as well. Interesting to know how much it cost - we hadn't really looked into it (obviously since she isn't dead yet).