Man declared dead returns to his home in Si Sa Ket

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Man declared dead returns to claim legal status as he’s still alive

By Thai PBS

 

 

A 44-year-old man returned to his home in Si Sa Ket province only to learn that he was officially declared dead and his family already held a funeral rite for him. 

 

After two years of working in Bangkok and on fishing vessels, Sakorn Sachiwa, a resident of Non Khun district, returned home on Sunday (Dec 17) to the surprise of his family members.

 

“You are dead. How could you come home?” Sakorn’s mother said when she first met him.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/man-declared-dead-returns-claim-legal-status-hes-still-alive/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2017-12-20

[Thaiwrath]

"Upon seeing part of the dead man’s face, Mr Sakorn’s relatives were uncertain if the corpse belongs to Mr Sakorn because the dead man has full front teeth while Mr Sakorn has two front teeth missing."

 

 

Don't worry about a trivial anomaly like that, just take him and bury him !

Certain traces of inefficiency seen quite regularly here.

 

[isaanbanhou]

We have all made mistakes , no big deal.

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Police left red-faced after ‘dead’ man visits home in Si Sa Ket seven months after his own funeral

By KITTIPONG MANEERIT, 
PONGPAT TRAIPIPAT 
THE NATION

 

 

METROPOLITAN POLICE Division 1 chief Pol Maj-General Zenith Samransamruadkit has assigned a team to investigate the misidentification of a corpse, resulting in a Si Sa Ket man being declared dead and his family holding a funeral and cremating an unknown dead male almost seven months ago.

 

Sakhon Sacheewa, a 44-year-old fisherman, returned to visit his hometown on Sunday after working on a boat in Nakhon Si Thammarat for 14 months, only to find out that his family thought he was dead and had cremated someone else’s body.

 

 

Bangkok’s Nang Lerng Police Station superintendent Pol Colonel Kampanart Arunkhiriroj said police had followed due procedure in reporting the death of an unnamed man whose decomposed body was found on May 20 in a rented room in Phra Nakhon district. 

 

Police found a copy of a Thai ID card without a photo, a copy of household registration papers and a security company’s employee card bearing the name Sakhon Sacheewa before sending the body for an autopsy at Vajira Hospital morgue. 

 

 

The deceased man was found to have died from an infection in the stomach and intestines and Sakhon’s relatives were contacted to collect the body.

 

After learning that Sakhon was alive, police initiated an investigation into the deceased man’s identity, although the man’s employer had not collected his fingerprints, and were checking financial transactions to find relatives or other clues, Kampanart said. 

 

A co-worker told police the deceased man spoke Thai and was from the Northeast.

 

Police also wanted Sakhon to testify regarding his claim that his documents had been stolen so police could have the Phra Nakhon district office cancel the death certificate, he said. 

 

 

Sakhon previously had said a Myanmar man had stolen his ID card, so he had filed a report and obtained a new card from Nakhon Si Thammarat’s Khanom district office. 

 

Si Sa Ket’s Noen Khun district chief Pornchai Wong-ngam told Sakhon yesterday that the office would launch an investigation into the procedures leading to him being declared dead before having his death certificate cancelled and restoring his 13-digit ID card number, which would take a week. 

 

Sakhon’s death certificate was probably issued due to information discrepancies, Pornchai said. However, any monetary compensation would be considered based on the law, he said, as the family claimed to have spent Bt200,000 on the funeral. 

 

Si Sa Ket Social Security Office (SSO) financial and accounting official Thanaporn Chaiyasit said the office had paid Bt90,222 in compensation to Sakhon’s mother, including Bt40,000 from the funeral assistance fund, Bt21,999.8 as a death compensation and Bt28,222 in pension savings. 

 

The office would ask for the family to return the money, possibly in instalments, and Sakhon would be restored to the SSO system, she said.

 

Sakhon’s relatives had earlier claimed that the body had protruding, intact front teeth while Sakhon was missing a front tooth, but morgue officials insisted the body was too decomposed for identification and rushed them to collect it for religious rites. 

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30334407

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-12-21

[Get Real]

Oh, my God! It´s the first resurrection known to mankind.

 

At least that´s what´s going to stand in the complete investigation report.

[Colabamumbai]

I leave my dentures with the wife when I go out so if they find my body she can match them with my mouth.

[metisdead]

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[Lupatria]

There are many 'living dead' around here. Most of them behind the wheel in their cars.

[wavemanwww]

This guy should of taken out life insurance. He would of then be laughing all the way to the bank to spend it and get a new tooth.

[isaanbanhou]

I need his house number and car plate number. No more counting rings on a tree or asking the monk.

This time I will get a winning lottery ticket

[trainman34014]

Up to the usual high standard of Thai Police work then !

[mentalcolonization]

Sue the government. 

[TKDfella]

Gee, my problem would not be with the police but the family who surely identified the body. In cases of fire, very bad accidents and so identification might be a problem. However, I suppose I could be wrong since it's alleged the body was decomposed but then there is the alleged difference with teeth. Hmmm

[chama]

And it all seemed so easy when the RTP first investigated, darn that attention to detail!

[Cereal]

Wouldn't his family have known he was working on a fishing boat and contacted the company to ask if dude was working? This scenario is totally whacked.