Newsstand - Woman stopped at airport trying to transport brother's skeleton on plane

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0312traveling-skeleton0312-ON.html

Based on the article, it sounds like the skeleton was in checked luggage. I would have kept them in carry on; don't want to lose something like that.

Isn't the usual practice to have a funeral home in the originating country (Brazil in this case) make arrangements with another funeral home in the destination country (Italy in this case) to have the remains properly transported via cargo (and at the same time get all the paperwork submitted to customs)?

Or is there something different about Brazil laws where human remains (non cremated) can actually be released to family members?

........don't want to lose something like that.

I do! Eeeeewwww! :eek:

Isn't the usual practice to have a funeral home in the originating country (Brazil in this case) make arrangements with another funeral home in the destination country (Italy in this case) to have the remains properly transported via cargo (and at the same time get all the paperwork submitted to customs)?



Since the death happened 11 years ago, I would assume the funeral home had nothing to do with this. It brings up the question of where the body was all that time, but it was probably buried in Brazil and they exhumed the remains.

One has to wonder how this would have turned out if she was connecting in JFK instead of MUC.