Originally Posted by
FlyingUnderTheRadar
No never put cremains in checked luggage. Checked luggage can be inspected and get bounced around. There are stories of the container getting opened and the contents spilled. even in hand luggage one should make sure the container is clearly marked human cremains.
I agree - I fretted even about mailing my brother's cremains from Florida to North Carolina, and had planned on going to Florida, picking them up in person and carrying them in my hand baggage on a flight to North Carolina. Then Hurricane Ike hit the day I was supposed to arrive in Florida.
A family friend mailed them and they arrived safely in NC, but I'd always carry them in hand myself if possible. While we decide what to do with the cremains, they are now in the hands of my previously long-lost nephew, my brother's son who happens to live an hour from my NC place. We had just finally "found him" on the internet - a wonderful young man with a lovely family - after years of no contact . A happy consequence of an otherwise sad series of events.