...(I assume, for instance, that someone can be legally admitted as a dead person into the United States where she couldn’t have entered as a live one) Your corpse is not a person, it's a lump of meat, with a few legal protections regarding desecrating it. I don't see any reasons aside from health concerns that it should be barred from
crossing country borders. Why would you deny someone's request to be buried in your country? Peter Spiro Matthew, I assume you're right, and I can't think of any reason...