Consider These Ohoughts by Kaitlynn Kirby Clark, and Kevin and Lynn Kirby DEATH AWAY FROM HOME Death can seem even more overwhelming when it happens away from home. Once the local authorities have been notified, those traveling with the deceased are urged to stay with the body in order to help the local police department and medical examiner's office. It is also extremely helpful to place a call to the funeral director at home, who can coordinate with a funeral director in the travelers' locale to arrange to cremate or embalm and transport the body back home. If a person has died without family or a traveling companion present, survivors should not fly out to the place of death. Instead, the hometown funeral director should be designated as point person, who can make the necessary identification. When funeral arrangements must unexpectedly be made away from home, J.C. KIRBY & SON FUNERAL CHAPELS AND CREMATORY will assist you in any way that we can. If a family member dies while traveling outside the United States, the U.S. embassy will come to your assistance. Call us immediately when a death occurs abroad. We are well versed in the procedures for returning the deceased to the United States. We have been serving our community with compassion for over 50 years. J.C. KIRBY & SON QUOTE: "Death often weighs heavier on us by its weight on FUNERAL CHAPELS AND CREMATORY others and pains us by their pain almost as much by their own, and sometimes even more." 832 BROADWAY 820 LOVERS LANE 843-3111 www.jckirbyandson.com - Montaigne Consider These Ohoughts by Kaitlynn Kirby Clark, and Kevin and Lynn Kirby DEATH AWAY FROM HOME Death can seem even more overwhelming when it happens away from home. Once the local authorities have been notified, those traveling with the deceased are urged to stay with the body in order to help the local police department and medical examiner's office. It is also extremely helpful to place a call to the funeral director at home, who can coordinate with a funeral director in the travelers' locale to arrange to cremate or embalm and transport the body back home. If a person has died without family or a traveling companion present, survivors should not fly out to the place of death. Instead, the hometown funeral director should be designated as point person, who can make the necessary identification. When funeral arrangements must unexpectedly be made away from home, J.C. KIRBY & SON FUNERAL CHAPELS AND CREMATORY will assist you in any way that we can. If a family member dies while traveling outside the United States, the U.S. embassy will come to your assistance. Call us immediately when a death occurs abroad. We are well versed in the procedures for returning the deceased to the United States. We have been serving our community with compassion for over 50 years. J.C. KIRBY & SON QUOTE: "Death often weighs heavier on us by its weight on FUNERAL CHAPELS AND CREMATORY others and pains us by their pain almost as much by their own, and sometimes even more." 832 BROADWAY 820 LOVERS LANE 843-3111 www.jckirbyandson.com - Montaigne