In July 2015, the mother of a young man who died in Russia was waiting at Tbilisi airport for his body to arrive. There was no corpse on the plane. The shipping company had accidentally sent the body to South Korea treating it as cargo. It took some time to find and bury the deceased. Later, when the case was presented to the court, heavy damages were imposed on the company because the shipping company had “violated the deceased’s mother’s dignity and she had suffered emotional pain” (Chitashvili, 2017: 198). Her son being handled as cargo was a painful experience for her. The funeral was postponed. The Chamber also noted that proper mourning of the deceased and bidding farewell on the last journey is a well-established tradition in Georgian society. According to the Chamber, “the plaintiff’s right to free development includes the right to mourn and say goodbye to her deceased son in accordance with existing Georgian traditions’” (Chitashvili, 2017: 199). The idea of a “proper funeral” is linked to the dignity of the deceased and to the dignity of the mourner, which, in the context of Georgian Christian practices, is often connected to the possibility of mourning the deceased at home, near the body, in a familiar environment although exceptionally arranged for the rituals, in the company of relatives and neighbours. During conversations with Georgian migrants living in different countries like Germany, USA or Russia, we noted that the migratory context generates three major death-related grievances…