Most interesting! Probably takes years to accumulate this kind of experience. It's essentially a case worker for the deceased and their far-away family. And there's the language barrier, depending on where they're going. Wow.
Reminds me of your U.K. trip. I find it disturbing that the average wait from death to burial is that long ? With no real visitation ? I hope I never die in the U.K. They may be fine with it, with there system. But GOD BLESS AMERICA even in death !
This is a valuable fact to know since I have friends and neighbors who were born in other countries. I enjoy the way you cover the various facts about things after death.
Well without putting too fine a point on it...you wouldn't want someone leaking all over the airport....think of it as a tupperwear container for that meatloaf that's just a bit beyond it's best before date.
@@KaritheMortician Do they still make the ole Ziggler boxes with all those screws?? My poor Cousin had to be put in one of those, back in the Summer of 69.
Apparently for the immediate victims of the Chernobyl disaster like the fire fighters who died they had some sort of steel coffins and also their graves were also covered over with cement to stop any contamination from the radiation that they were exposed to and ultimately died from.
I work for a travel insurance company. This is a very good reason to purchase travel insurance. If someone passes away overseas the insurance company will make all the arrangements so the family does not have to!
One of my coworkers was flown back to the Philippines . He was embalmed. He was A Drowning victim. He Did look so good I can imagine how he looked when he got there.
Zinc lined casket is used primarily for preservation of the body either for transport or for being placed above ground in a crypt. Zinc also prevents odour and potential toxins from leaving the coffin... this is especially important for air travel when the body may not be buried for a longer period of time.
your videos are real early in the morning and makes me wonder if between work and you tube and family if you are not burning the candle at both ends? just a bit worried as you are a wonderful lady. stay safe
Maybe Kari has a stock of videos prefilmed and schedules their uploads? I too hope she's got a good balance but I'm sure she make family priority. Kari is great, very respectful and informative isn't she?
My aunts father just died this month and they are taking him back to Cabo Verde 🇨🇻 which is in Africa to be buried and I was just so curious as to how the whole process works so this video helps a lot.
We would know better than to have a viewing. Funeral is just at the church then the graveyard behind the church and done. French people saw way too much during World War 2 and no one is going to insist on a visitation. No popping the lid off the box!
kari...Hi! hope ur well in Michigan. Did ypu ever see the way the soldiers who died in Desert One operation came home? Stacked like airfrieght on a pallet as they came off the C130 thst flee them back in transit coffins. . Thank god the military have moved on since then. Can't get the image out of my mind. Keep well deat Lady Of Michigan. God bless all veterans too! TJ the DJ.......
I just watched a documentary on TV about an elderly Australian lady who went to Switzerland to die by Euthanasia and her family got her cremated in Switzerland and then just bought most of her ashes back with them. She went to Switzerland as Euthanasia is legal over there if you get approved by one of the specific clinics over there. It was her choice as she wanted to die with dignity. It was a very interesting documentary on Legal Euthanasia. Life should be someone's personal choice and you shouldn't have to go half way across the World to be able to have that choice either. The family had to have the passport etc... checked by the Swiss Police at the time of death and all of the appropriate paperwork etc... and she was asked about what she wanted to be done with her body afterwards. As two members of her immediate family had gone over to Switzerland also they had her body cremated and scattered some of her ashes in the Rhine River I think it was and bought the rest of the ashes home to Australia with them and then had keepsakes made and scattered the rest in a River in Australia. The crematorium looked very different in Switzerland and they watched the coffin go in. With 3 furnaces next to each other they looked a little bit more like a huge pizza oven. Anyways it was a very interesting documentary about someone choosing Euthanasia and a quiet death overseas instead of getting older and maybe suffering in their older age.
I thought why not just cremate the person, send them home like they are any product we buy on Amazon if it saves all this red tape? As long as the family is okay with it....and who knows what happens to cremains anyway?
I had a friend die in Egypt, took forever to get his body back. They had him creamated and just a mormorial for him, can’t imagine what his mother went threw.
Do you know the name of the documentary?and its called assist suicide they have it in a few different states where doctor gives you some type of medication when you take it and you just don't wake up
Heck, it's even expensive if a Case has to be shipped via air freight from one State to another within the USA but not as bad as dying overseas. The cheapest way to get the remains moved from point A to Point B is to have them cremated first, unfortunately. But if you have the money it's no problem.
@@KaritheMortician I had a funeral that I attended back in the 70s when my Aunt's Mother had to be flown from the Deep South up to William Penn's nape of the Woods. They already had a viewing for the Deceased down there and now, they had a 1 day viewing and funeral for her up here. I noticed the corpses palor looked White and chalky.. like they never heard of Lifelike tints in the Southland. The Funeral Director explained that it could have been from the different air pressures the body was exposed to in the baggage compartment....
Zinc lined casket is used primarily for preservation of the body either for transport or for being placed above ground in a crypt. Zinc also prevents odour and potential toxins from leaving the coffin... this is especially important for air travel when the body may not be buried for a longer period of time.
Hi there Kari! Not related to the video, but I'm very curious. is embalming possible for people who have been stabbed or people who generally died of blood loss? I'd assume its not, but would it still be possible if a corpse is given stitches or something similar, or maybe a different method of embalming all together? I'd really like to know this, thank you so much!
What happens if that happens when someone doesn’t have the virus and they aren’t in their own country and dies else where? And the family wants them home? X
Have you had a repatriation of an American citizen from abroad back to the USA? I had a friend of a friend die in Paris and the ordeal the family went through to get him returned was just crazy! He had to be in a lead lined casket or some such thing.
Im sorry but if i had a close love that wanted to go back to there country and there wasnt enough for it i would just tell them it aimt gonna happen i dont see getting myself stressed out trying to figure out how there gonna get there its already hard having to deal with them already gone never mind nothing else
@@KaritheMortician interestingly my aunt lived in the USA and was married with 7 kids...she never took a US passport...she was cremated in the US and her remains were hand carried back to the UK to be with her Mum...there was no red tape whatsoever though her daughter did bring her death cert and cremation permit.
