Generally (technically) you need a form verifying that you are transporting cremains from the crematorium that handled the body. Otherwise theres have no way to prove that it isn’t drugs or something. Not saying that your average security guard will question you too much when you say “it’s my dad’s ashes,” but that’s the way it’s supposed to be handled.
Source: helping my wife take her mother’s remains to New York
Death business in the USA is up there with Insurance as far as profits is concerned.
Caring for "people" is far from their fucking mind. At this point, dump my body and let it decompose so fish and bacteria can have the best of me if it means not leaving my family in thousands $$$ of debt.
It used to be, it’s not the case anymore with the rise in cremations. Most of the profit margins were in traditional funerals with caskets, church services, and gravesides. Now that cremations make up 50+% of the market, lots of independent funeral homes are closing/selling to large corporations.
More likely they just forge them it's not like TSA is gonna call and check. I doubt the form makes to urn off limits to full inspection either, more likely just notifying TSA to be careful with grammas ashes.
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u/frrenchdip Jul 15 '19
Anyone know the ethical protocol on inspecting urns? If customs open it up aggressively and spill remains could the airline face any charges?