You may have read about the Oklahoma couple who covered up the
death of a daughter and who transported that child’s body across
six state lines about six times for a total of 1,900 miles
before they were caught. While cases like this occur
occasionally, body transportation must exist to return a body to
a family or to send the deceased to a burial location outside
the place of death, among other legitimate reasons. Can you
deliver a body yourself, or do regulations exist to prevent this
measure? Body transport is governed on the state level, and a
few states boast independent licensed body transportation such
as Virginia and Florida. In other states, such as Vermont, the
transporter’s license is tied to a funeral home or crematory. In
some cases, you simply need the death certificate and an out-of-
state disposition permit from Vital Records or from a funeral
director to move a body from one state to another. In Missouri,
for instance, you can move a body by “common carrier” if the
death was not caused by a co