Body Transport

[rich47]

My mother has been told that if she transports her husband's body from Yorkshire to Aberdeenshire she will be charged £x by each local authority area it passes through.
Can this be true?

[murraymints]

that's what we had to do to bring grandad up from Devon...by rail but a fee for every county on the way to Edinburgh..cost a fortune

[murraymints]

any undertaker will advise you

[ummmm]

How is he being transported?

We took my granddad back to Ireland...and it cost a bomb so I'm assuming any extra charges was included in the price.

[EDDIE51]

Just get someone to load it in the back of a van and drive it back!

[maggiebee]

Many, many years ago my nephew was killed in an accident in London while home on leave from the RAF. His body was transported by rail to Aberdeen and I understand it was very expensive. There was also something about crossing the border between England and Scotland but I can't remember the details.

[EDDIE51]

It will cost a bomb if you get an undertaker to do it , so just do it yourself! Or hire a van and driver , it's quite legal!
Buy a body bag off eBay and put the body in that , you do not need a coffin.

[ummmm]

And how many people will be comfortable with doing that, Eddie.

What about all the treatments a dead body needs?

[Kathyan]

Apparently not true.
http://evansaboveonline.co.uk/after-death/transporting-the-body/

[EDDIE51]

^ Thanks that confirms what I knew. It is 100% legal to put a body in a body bag and transport it to where you want it to be, as long as you do not try to take it out of the country. You need no permission from anyone but make sure you have the death certificate ready to show if the police ask questions.
This is more bulls****t from the money grabbing funeral directors.
As I have said on AB before it is 100% legal to put a body in a body bag and transport it any way , even in a wheelbarrow, to the back door of the crematorium and have to fed direct into the furnace with no ceremony at all. You just need the death certificate and the certificate of clearance for cremation. Obviously funeral directors do not like people knowing this! This is how I my remains are to be disposed of if the medical school do not accept my body for students to practice dissection on. Which is a 100% free and legal way to get rid of a body.

[hc4361]

I've told you before, Eddie, that many councils will not accept bodies in a body bag. Your council does, not all do.

[rockyracoon]

A chap round the corner to me did exactly that, Eddie. Put is dad in a body bag, into the back of a transit and took him to the crem. He even stopped at the pub on the way. The bloke who was with him was horrified.

[Sqad]

Eddie, it is not what you or I may want, as it is the desires of the living. When i am dead, then i couldn't care a toss if i was buried in Yorkshire OR Aberdeen shire and even less, how i got there.
However, the living, relatives, fans, ABer's need to make a song and dance about burying the dead.....it is called "celebrating their lives."
Ummmm doe have a point .....in the UK, a dead body will start to smell within a couple of days.

[Barmaid]

Well there is nothing to stop the body being treated by the embalmers and then stuck in the back of a van.

I get a bit annoyed with some people (funeral directors and lawyers) after death who see it as a licence to print money. It plays on the grief of those left behind. Because most people wont question what they are told and most are in that hiatus between death and funeral where one exists in a bit of a void.

[EDDIE51]

It's nothing to do with the council unless the crem is council owned.
All crematoria accept bodys in a body bag , and will allow you to just take a body direct to the crem for feeding into the furnace. You must have the death certificate and the cremation clearance as well as ID for the body. I realise some are not happy to do this but there are now funeral directors who will do it for you. They still charge a few hundred £s though for just picking up and transporting the body .

[ummmm]

Do you expect them to do it for nothing?

[hc4361]

Eddie, my local crematorium all the crematoria in my borough insist on a cardboard coffin as minimum.

[EDDIE51]

On the same topic a close friend of ours had to arrange for her Father's body to be moved from Yorkshire where he had died to Hertfordshire where he and she lived. The first funeral director she went to said it would be £3500 to move the body and arrange the funeral. She then went to another one and got a new quote that was a lot lower. Then she went back and forward between 5 funeral directors asking for lower and lower quotes by showing the last quote. She ended up by getting it all for £900 instead of £3500 !
*** off the funeral directors though ;-)

[EDDIE51]

hc4361 then just take the body to a crem that does accept a body in a body bag! You can use a crematorium anywhere in the UK as long as you pay the transport cost, which will be MUCH cheaper than buying a cardboard coffin.

[hc4361]

No, Eddie, I won't as I believe it is unfair to expect the crem workers to handle a body in a bag without at least a board. I will have a cardboard coffin and a direct to crem cremation without a service.

[hc4361]

The price of cremation varies a great deal between councils - for example, Birmingham charge £814 for an adult, Dudley £400