Sometime Germans are a little too practical

I am always thinking that Germans are a practical group of people... then I read this article and I thought.. yes, I could see my German family doing the same thing

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,1980515,00.html

"Don't make me stop this car", it's probably revenge for all those long holiday trips to the alps.

How can that "not matter"?
WTF?

huh?

If it's only a modest fine, she'll probably still save money. Which was the whole point, oder?

I'd be inclined to do the same if it saved me some €€€.
It's ridiculus, I'm sure the mother has done this trip with her daughter before, when she was alive, but now the same journey is illegal because she's dead...WTF!!

It probably won't, the body will have to transported from wherever she was stopped, in a hearse, to an mortuary before transporting it to the final resting place. I don't see the boys in green paying for that. Maybe the ADAC covers it though.

Cremate and UPS, you know it makes sense.

Yeti - I believe you have a vehicle ideally suited for the discreet transportation of the recently deceased?

I am thinking it would need plenty of fresh air circulating and travel not much quicker than hearse.

Could be a part-time business begging here.

Maybe she was saving on the UPS and driving the body to Dachau to fire up the ovens.

Just get one of these



and say granny’s just having a nap

@JE

Shit, you're right you know. I can even provide the background music of your choice and a cuppa for the recently bereaved.

I'll need a spray can of black paint though.

As it happens - legally - who owns a corpse?

Surely the previous owner has pretty much given up their rights by virtue of sneaking off to a better place.

Like ultimately who decides if the body gets burnt, buried or diced with carrots?

I cannot see the issue here from a legal stand, only a bit of health and safety.

Ze rules are ze rules.

You're not allowed to hang out to a corpse for longer than the time specified by law. Burial falls with responsibilty of the government. So after the specified period the corpse has to be stored in a climate controlled storage facility before being buried in an approved manner in an official graveyard. That's why you can't have a wake like in Ireland.

So what if you get it moving before the specified period ends?

That's not a problem. It's actually a time limit, nobody is going to make you hang on to a stiffy longer than you have to.

So, say it's 48 hours. Just a random number. I decide I want my dearly departed to be in Leipzig, not Hannover. I could then during this time period legally move them? I think they would still get you on not treating a body with respect or something.

Well, it said in the article that you can't transport a body in your own private vehicle. I think that would cover that scenario, Showem.

What about someone else's private vehicle?

€125 and you pay for the diesel ?

Yeti, next time I have a still lukewarm body, I'll PM you.

McShowems Besttatung, I'm leichen it !

I'll get the sticker done right now.

or she could have used a rental car and stuck mom in the trunk...

As for bodies.. the personal representative from the old ladies estate may be in charge of that... since her body is one of her remaining assets

This has to be one of the worst-taste threads I have seen on this board, particularly the jocular reference to Dachau.

Sorry, Supergill. I'm surprised nobody smacked me on that one before you.

Mea culpa.

You obviously haven't been on the board very long then.

Thanks for that, cinzia. No offence, just thought it needed saying.

Supergill, I actually missed cinzia's reference until you mentioned it. As for the rest, it was simply honest curiousity on my part as to what the specific rules were.

It's gone right downhill since those Bavarian muppets invaded.

Hmmm... interesting. Was tipped off by Mortuary. Business seems to be tough when they even tip off that someone is trying to save money there. But as Koblens is close to Daun it will probably cost less that the whole trip would have cost.