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The Agreement on the Transfer of Corpses is a 1973 multilateral treaty whereby states agree to rules for the transport of human corpses across international borders.It is a treaty of the Council of Europe and as of 2013 has only been ratified by European states, but it is open to ratification by any state in the world.
Mortuary Affairs is a service within the United States Army Quartermaster Corps tasked with the recovery, identification, transportation, and preparation for burial of deceased American and American-allied military personnel. The human remains of enemy or non-friendly persons are collected and returned to their respective governments or ...
The e-Clearance for Afterlife Remains (e-CARe) is an Indian government portal. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was established to conduct clearance procedures electronically to ensure timely transportation of human remains across international borders , for public and their families in India. [ 3 ]
The company had shipped the ashes via FedEx — which has a policy against transporting human remains — inside containers that Yellott described in an email as “reused boxes.”
Corpse roads provided a practical means for transporting corpses, often from remote communities, to cemeteries that had burial rights, such as parish churches and chapels of ease. [1] In Britain, such routes can also be known by a number of other names, including bier road , burial road , coffin line , coffin road , corpse way , funeral road ...
Burial at sea for two casualties of a Japanese submarine attack on the US aircraft carrier USS Liscome Bay, November 1943. Burial at sea is the disposal of human remains in the ocean, normally from a ship, boat or aircraft.
"We feel a responsibility to continue what he started,” said the daughter of pilot Seuk Kim, who was killed on Nov. 24
The shoreline of Nevada’s Lake Mead receding has led to the discoveries of two sets of human remains and cracked open the mystery of the watery depths and what may be hidden below.