To provide a dead-body storage bag securely preventing secondary infection when the new type influenza occurs in pandemic scale, exhibiting virus barrier properties, and securely transmitting data on the dead body without generating harmful substances when the bag is burned.

An approximately rectangular bag body made of an impermeable material is openable/closable via a slide fastener. A holding member is foldably disposed within the bag body for retaining the three-dimensional shape of the bag body at a position where the upper part of the dead body is stored. The dead-body storage bag also has a plurality of handles on both sides of the bottom of the bag body in the longitudinal direction.