alanrchase

Famous for being famous....and rich for doing pretty much nothing special. Well, got to give her credit for that.

Can a person be famous for not being famous? Business opportunity?

Another "Tragic Accident" ? yeah right, dont tell me, suspected suicide, this is getting beyond a joke. How many more bodies will pile up before something is "actually done" !

How many is that know in the last few months?

Seriously, the amount of "accidents / unsolved deaths" are mounting here.

At least they are not calling his death suicide .,,,,,, YET

The old favourates are the best, keep them coming.

It would appear that the majority of TV posts are embroiled in the effect with little concern for the cause. A young man has died under suspicious and as yet unreported circumstances and that should be cause for the British Embassy to investigate through the Thai authorities and clarify. Why has there been a potential news blackout on this.Where did it happen and how did it happen are significantly more serious than pontificating on travel insurance. Are we all getting conditioned into accepting that life is cheap and irrelevant in this country ?

To answer briefly, yes.

I had a friend drop dead in my loungeroom while I was away and the landlady rang me to tell me the news and when I told her that I don't think I could get back there all she was worried about was could she keep the 3000 baht deposit that I left with her.[/quote

Sorry to quote the whole post but as reported so far there are no suspicious circumstances.

Seems there is a bit of competition between various celebs to find out of the way places to adopt a child. "Oh, I got mine from wherever". Possibly some real feeling there but more likely one upmanship.

I feel the need to comment but what a piece of "reality TV" toss. Anything to keep the ratings up and not a thought about the people affected by it. Kardashian and Paris Hilton should be left on a desert island.

Was looking for another thread and stumbled on this. Quick reply is your money is as safe in a major bank here as it would be anywhere else in the world. Why worry?

TomYumpoochai, on 23 Nov 2014 - 10:36, said:

Entering the country on a 1 way ticket and intending to work? Im curious as to the visa he had for that?

I suspect someone with that kind of gameplan probably didnt have a thai elite card and im fairly confident he didnt see the need to waste extra chang money on insurance....

Idiot, that has NOTHING to do with the OP...grow up and keep your bigoted views to yourself, and start your own thread. People like you give my the S#its.

Why so angry? Poster has a point. Bigoted? Young lad that had a dream, good for him. Tragic outcome. Zero judgement till more info available, even then judgement is probably irrelevant.

My cremation expenses have been paid for in advance here. I have medical insurance. Half of my cremains stay here, husband takes the other half to my surviving family in the US.

Personally they could dump my remains in a gutter and it wouldn't bother me. The family back home would want them for a wake and my husband would want to spend time with them to grieve.

Forward thinking. Not like that myself but should do something about it. Mother died in UK two years ago, her will stipulated all funeral expenses would come out of her estate. Wonderful lady, no family arguments.

Interesting on topic article on the BBC website of today.

The consular service provided by the UK Foreign Office sometimes falls short of what the public "can legitimately expect", a report by MPs says.

Bereavement services - offered when Britons die abroad - had fallen "well below expected standards" at times, the Foreign Affairs Committee report says.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30163093

No real surprise in the contents given some of the comments in this topic.

Read that earlier today. Last time I had to visit the British Embassy was about 20 years ago. They had little interest in things they were paid to do back then. Since then they have downsized a lot so would expect very little from them now unless the press get involved. Personally try to make sure I am covered for various outcomes with my own finances. Would hate for my family back home to have to pay for me.

In a situation like this logic and rational thinking is not the point!!

You have grieving parents, who want some kind of closure. And if it takes to get the body of their loved one home, who are we to tell them, they are wrong??

If the world was all logic and rational, it would be a very cold place to live!!

That's your particular perspective!!!!!! Some 'kind of closure' is not spending a large amount of money the 'grieving parents' appear not to have, simply to throw the physical remains into a hole in the ground has nothing to with either 'logic' nor 'rational'. Exclamation mark exclamation mark exclamation mark.

You clearly never have heard of the word spirituallity, and obiviously don't understand the meaning of it either.

Hope that nothing bad will happen in your strong and righteous life, so you will never have to ask the help of someone else!!

Words for you too google: Empathy and solidarity.

Each "religion" has their own ideas about death. Cremation for some is out of the question.

The reports on this tragedy make no mention about religious beliefs. Each posters stance on death is valid but may not resonate with the bereaved. Religion is both good and bad.

What about the British Embassy for once doing the decent thing??

Get the poor guys body home and worry about the monetary aspects later!!

I'm British and I don't expect my embassy to give a flying fig about my corpse once I've carked it. What does it matter where a body is finally laid to rest? I'd rather my family (or indeed my country) kept the money (and its expensive to fly the deceased home - it's not the same as finding them an aisle seat - there are health regulations to be met, coffins to be found to hold the body, etc.) rather than moved my no-longer-in-the-remotest-bit-concerned flesh around the world.

I actually agree with you, but this is not about you or me, but about the young mans family, who clearly feel different!!

So they can pay for to take him home.Travel insurance is available in Thailand.

any recommendations for travel insurance in thailand please? (sorry off topic)

If you are visiting Thailand probably best to get insurance before you travel.

£6,000 has been raised so far.

Over £12,000 has now been raised.

OK, thanks for the update, my opinion stays the same but fortunately the family now has the funds to carry out their wishes.

£6,000 has been raised so far. Little information in the report. Why not fly with a family member or friend to Thailand, hold the funeral here, (would think most religions are covered in BKK if that is necessary) then return home and have a memorial service?

Posted in the hope of enlightening the 'embassy ain't doing nuffink' brigade re their own responsibilities:

At least they tell it as it is, good for them. Now if you get jailed for trying to smuggle a couple of kilos of drugs out of the country they can't do enough for you.

It is not possible to get travel insurance that will cover you for moving to another country on a long term basis.

Are you certain about this?

I believe it is not called travel insurance because that is not what is needed. What is needed is world wide (normally excluding the USA) medical insurance. Reasonable price if you do it in a well known supermarket out here.

By the way Alan.....Whats Black and Brown and looks good on my Thai Wife ????? Answer, A Doberman Pincher

Love is in the eye of the beholder.

One thing that it easy to reconise,by the nature of most of these posts is.....That Thai-ness must be catching.

Please explain Thainess. Is it wrong if your opinion happens to follow a supposed Thai way of doing things. Should each foreigner who in some people's opinion show signs of "Thainess" be sent to western re-education camps?

Looks like you are infected, Sorry as far as I know,there is no cure. Better take a trip back home sometime,you could get it on the NHS .

Take each post on here at face value. If I disagree so be it. Thainess does not come into it. Daft things to my mind go on everywhere. Possibly here more than other places. Used to read a certain tabloid back home more for fun than news. If you believed every story in it the country concerned was a farce.

Car720, travel insurance in Thailand for me for a year, but only a maximum of 50 days visits a time, is less than 90 GBP. That is not much at all.

Agreed. Not too sure if it is still the case but if you pay for travel with certain credit cards insurance used to be included.

One thing that it easy to reconise,by the nature of most of these posts is.....That Thai-ness must be catching.

Please explain Thainess. Is it wrong if your opinion happens to follow a supposed Thai way of doing things. Should each foreigner who in some people's opinion show signs of "Thainess" be sent to western re-education camps?

Not many people aware of it, but last year there were nearly 400 fatalities of British people alone

in Thailand, and that's says it all....

"and that's says it all......"

Yes but maybe not the way you intended!!

For half the numbers of visitors to Thailand last year Swedish fatalities was about 100.

So the mortality rate amongst the Brits are twice that of the Swedes.

Makes you wonder why!! Maybe Thailand is not to blame alone............

not saying theres not a lot of violence in Thailand at the moment, Ive been attacked several times myself recently, but you have to remember that quite a few Brits retire here and retired people do generally die at some stage of their retirement

You been attacked several times recently? Please expand. Where, what time, by whom.

The usual Thai apologists and trolls out in force. Sad.

Sorry, the stats of deaths are starting to add up.

Accept your point but statistics generally prove very little without context. Road deaths here are very high compared to western countries but the number of motorcycles on the road here far exceeds a western country so cannot be compared. Likewise the number of possibly disillusioned people with their homeland who believe Thailand to be cheap and the women to be plentiful but arrive without thinking through a realistic budget are possibly greater than in the west. Tragedy unfortunately can follow.

I hate it when dodgy stuff gets covered up

Until an autopsy is performed and the findings published, and as it stands, there is no evidence, whatsoever, of anything dodgy.

And back in the real world....

A Thai neighbor drowned in the river this afternoon while gathering shellfish. Police were there fairly quickly. 15 minutes later a "rescue pickup" arrived. 30 minutes later an ambulance arrived with hospital staff to officially pronounce him dead. 30 minutes more and the casket was delivered. No autopsy, no investigation. Seems that is how it works here.

Never change prior to arrival anywhere (except into Eros ...maybe!). rates here from Pounds is pretty much the same anywhere in Thailand. Though some banks will charge you a bit more for the service... but in the end that will not be much at all. talk to your bank there or credit card people and see if they charge you a foreign use service charge first. Fro I have found that ATMs here are good to pull Thai Baht from at rather good enough rates. There are apps that you can get and sites that will give you up to the minute exchange rates, but remember that these posted rates are different than what the banks or exchange places will give you. Personally, I prefer banks over the currency exchange places. But that is just me... and deal in US Dollars.

Why deal in US dollars unless you are American? If not American you will be exchanging money twice and paying twice for the privilege.

Tea Money Heaven.......

Why call it tea money? It is against the law and will incur a fine. Are you suggesting there should be no fine or they should not be stopped?

I could not believe there is no filter on my Toyota Tiger A/C, gets clogged up every 5 years or so.