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Originally Posted by OhioBuckeye
My wife & I really don’t want to be cremated. We’re both more interested in being buried in our home state of Ohio but we live in Texas. I know it’s expensive to ship a body that far but does anybody have any idea if this makes sense or is there a cheap way to ship a body? What a creepy thought!
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My father and mother were both "shipped" from S.FL up north (3yrs apart). The shipping part wasn't expensive, maybe $1200 (no meals). It was the cost of transporting them TO the airport and then FROM the airport TO the funeral home and all the unions involved that was the expensive part. Everyone who touched the casket got big bucks. I guess that also would depend on your "final destination." A union to put the casket on the plane, a union to take it off the plane a union to take it from the luggage area to the hearse a union to put it into the hearse a union to take it off the hearse then there were 3 unions involved in the burial. It was crazy but it was mostly prepaid (about 1/2). It would have been cheaper to buy them a coach seat with a wheelchair guy and then an Uber to the funeral home.