Requirements For Shipping Human Remains (HUM)

This week, I've been busy enough assisting my cousin in facilitating the papers regarding the cadaver to be sent home from Manila to Butuan.

This post is for those who are looking for the requirements about sending human remains or transferring the cadaver from one place to another through plane. I hope this could help someone like me who have no idea at first. All you have to do is complete the necessary requirements with proper coordination with the funeral service personnel.

Planning to send a cadaver or human remains won't take long. All we need to have are the following based on Cebu Pacific Cargo:

• Three (3) Photocopies of the Following:

1. Death Certificate
2. Embalming Certificate
3. Quarantine Permit from Bureau of Quarantine - DOH
4. Transfer Permit or Permit to Transport from the Municipal / City Health Office

*Original documents shall be presented upon transfer of the Cadaver.

• Coffin must be hermitically sealed and crated

• Shipments must be at the cargo area at least 3 hours before the flight

Death Certificate

- can be acquired at the office of the civil registrar. 

Transfer Permit

- Submit a death certificate accompanied by Barangay certificate and funeral contract at the municipality's civil registrar. Payment should not be higher than P300 or depending on each municipality. You will be asked to take a heath certificate at the City Health Center located within the Municipal Hall. Health Certificate is included in the payment.

Embalming Certificate

- a certificate of embalming is acquired through the funeral service provider. The funeral knows about it and you will be asked about the necessary documents. They also needed those document you have with you as mentioned above

Quarantine

- this is the last thing furnished by funeral personnel together with the receipt. Payment for this is P300.

When you already completed these documents, you can arranged the booking personally or through phone call. You will be given an Air Way Bill number needed by the cargo section for the sticker (to be attached at the top of the crate).

Be sure to carry the cadaver at the cargo section 3 hours before the desired flight or as early as possible depending on the arrangement to avoid hassle. First, you have to fill-up a form. Then, the cargo shall be weighed to get the correct weight. Next, you will be directed to their staff for assessment before a sticker is issued as I mentioned above. Next, the cargo will be scanned at the scanning section then you go back to the staff who issued the sticker which will then asked you to make payment. That's all.

With our experience, our cargo weighted 197 kilograms which cost P5,180. Hope this will give someone an idea of how much they will going to spend sending a cadaver. Just remember to give the papers together with the documents mentioned above to the escort for claiming the cargo upon arrival at destination.

Lumpia with Green Chili

A few days ago, My wife revealed her ability to cook something out of curiousity. She wanted to used those fresh green chili (locally called siling haba) from Nueva Ecija, in her favorite delicacy - Lumpiang Shanghai or spread rolls. She used some of it before it will be wasted away. Actually those green chilies are fresh from farm, it's a lot cheaper than buying from the market. 

Using  the common ingredients for spring rolls, she added a piece of fresh chili to make it hot and spicy but she removed the seeds out of that chili to lessen pungency. I could not resist myself from eating that spicy lumpia, so I took two pieces to try how it tasted. Indeed, it's good and delicious which all of us enjoyed her new recipe added to our lunch.

 

We're Still Blessed

Traveling to a distant place or a far one is such an horror to me. It is not because I don't know how to drive a car but because of the danger we may encounter along the way.

Yesterday, at 4:30 am, my wife and I woke up early to prepare for our travel going to Talugtog, Nueva Ecija. It was my second time around. I have to carry a set of furnitures including other stuff to my elder brother's new home. I know it was too heavy for the van (Nissan Serena) to carry the load including my elder Sister, Sister-in-law and a grandson but I opted to go anyway due for a favor. We finished loading at around 5:00 am.

At 5:30, we started tracking the road from Taguig to Nueva Ecija via NLEX & SCTEX highway at 90-125 kph velocity. In that speed, we we're able to reach the place in 3 1/2 hours at 9:00 am. In short, we safely arrived there not knowing that one of the rear tire (right side) was at the tip of explosion because the ply are beginning to be teared apart (I forgot to take a picture). I discovered it when I started to check the tires before we are about to begin our way back home. 

Upon returning, I decided to drop by a vulcanizing shop in Guimba, Nueva Ecija to look for a used tire for an immediate replacement. Luckily, a used one (good for nothing) is available for P1000 pesos and I was able to negotiate it for P900 with free mounting. I had no choice but to get it than staying for the night at Nueva Ecija.

Again, we safely arrived home at 9 pm. However, we did bring some vegetables including fresh tomatoes to which we enjoy our dinner. Finally, I said to myself that I would be more careful next time. Thanks God for saving our lives and for being merciful to us.

Learning At Home

Do you think that by doing something is making ourselves busy? Yeah! Each morning, around 5 am, I rose up early and started thinking of an activity that would make me busy. As we all know, each of us has a lot of work to do each day. Each day is an opportunity to learn and improve. Whether it be an easy one or a complex thing to do. It's hard when we're just sitting or standing without any accomplishment at the end of the day. 

I observed a lot of people, whose habit is just standing around the corner as if they're waiting for something. Sometimes, I thought, they are the very people who keep on living like a pensioner. They mingle with other people and keep talking until the end of the day. They shout and talk like they know better.They never worry nor toil for living. I hope I'm not judging or something. But the more I see them each day (doing nothing except when needed), the more I think that they are more blessed than I am.

For me, It is very important that we keep on working, learning from day to day. I find it more interesting to learn or improve our very skills without limitations. Instead of mingling with our neighbor, I spent my days on improving my skills and master it. Beside, I'm doing fine all day. 

Learning from home can be the best alternative an individual can do if pursuing proper education or training is unreachable. Nowadays, computer is a great tool for learning. There is so much to learn like graphics designing, HTML programming, computer repair, photoshop, printer troubleshooting etc...All we have to do is expand our understanding even reading and writing. Aside from those, we must learn how to do some house repair. Search for the best books that would surely help us understand something relevant to what we are trying to do. We should have that positive attitude and deepest desire to make everything right. 

From home, I already known a lot of things from computer repair to maintenance, business ideas, improving my typing skills, aside from doing electrical installation to house repair. If we end up nothing we might be helpless like others. So better start today for tomorrow is another day.