Well, as long as we are talking about this subject, I will give you my experience. My mother and I were in Switzerland on vacation visiting relative and she had the misfortune of dying there. First of all, they consider her age of 76 being old. Wow!!!!!!!! Their embalming consists of something they call a spritz. By the time the body gets in the hands of a mortician it is too late to embalm. Because we are from the US the body is put in a steel vault and shipped to our country. Hand welded I might add. It is expensive for the family. Looking back I would have had her cremated. Embalming is only done at the medical school on Bern so transportion is a problem. In the town where my family lives the length of time in a cemetery is 40 years. It is a real problem for genealogists. No walks through the cemetery for the stones of family members. Hope this did not gross out anyone. If it did I apologize. Thank for listening Barilynn