I lived in Thailand many years and moved back to my home country

a few years ago I am very happy here where I live, I met some one

I really like and I like to go back just for a short holiday (10 days ) so

if I book the top health cover does that include my body being

transferred back (just in case I die ) I mean I don't care if I am dead 

 but I still have a ex-wife who cares about me and a nephew so what

will happen? Will I get buried or cremated in Thailand if the insurance

company does not approve me being send back to my home country?

 

You should just read the insurance policy, this will answer your question

2 hours ago, White Christmas13 said:

 but I still have a ex-wife who cares about me and a nephew so what

will happen?

Contact the Insurance Company/Broker and ask them, no one here could possibly know the terms of your policy/cover.

 

The other point is make sure someone knows about the policy and cover.

If something happens to you and you are not carrying anything in your belongings how will they know you even have insurance.

You will never know because insurance companies do whatever they can to deny you on the smallest technicalities. Zero peace of mind because insurance companies exist and even have departments built designed to deny you. Their goal is to deny as many claims as possible and accept as many payments as possible. 

Upon your death your body will immediately be searched for money and valuables by your girl and the village.  

Make sure before you step foot back here!  They will remove all your organs drain your blood and toss you body on a Soi for the dogs to get at!????

The someone you like will most likely take any money put aside for your return and claim she doesn't know you! Sound like you are happy back home but lonely so check the local adds for Asian massage parlor.  Sound also you too old to travel stay home.

You're dead, Jim.  It won't matter.  Because you would be dead.

 

 

19 hours ago, White Christmas13 said:

I lived in Thailand many years and moved back to my home country

a few years ago I am very happy here where I live, I met some one

I really like and I like to go back just for a short holiday (10 days ) so

if I book the top health cover does that include my body being

transferred back (just in case I die ) I mean I don't care if I am dead 

 but I still have a ex-wife who cares about me and a nephew so what

will happen? Will I get buried or cremated in Thailand if the insurance

company does not approve me being send back to my home country?

 

Are you really expecting to die within a 10 day holiday?!?! 

Avoid zip lines, motorbikes and possibly don't take too much viagra and you should be able to survive a 10 day trip here.

 

Most travel insurance policies include repatriation of remains. Check the policy terms.

Check with the insurance company, read the disclosure statements.

Disclose ALL pre-existing illnesses

Leave a copy of the policy with your "person responsible" in your home country

Always carry a copy of the policy with you and also have an electronic copy in case you loose the hard copy.

 

Do your research

 

Do you really care what happens to your body. Your soul has left it. If not a direct cremation you will be paying every Thai along the way including the big party for everyone. Sending back to home country would cause someone a lot of money. Leave it to those left to decide what to do. Enjoy your afterlife!

I'm a very messed up middle aged man, so please forgive me for asking the question ... but .... what does it matter a toss what happens to your body after you die?

 

Write a simple letter with instructions re: your corpse. Keep it is the hotel room safe saying e.g. please burn my body and contact so and so for funds to pay for cremation (after organs are donated).

Give my knees to the needy

The blind can have my eyes

The deaf can have both my ears

If they don't mind the size

 

John Prine.

I asked my Embassy much the same question.

The police notify the embassy.

If you are married, it will be up to the wife to decide unless you have made other arrangements in your will and with your wife.

In which case the insurance will make arrangements in consultation with your family back home.

Those are the basics.

 

Don't create any obligation. Therefore cremation is the best way. 

I wouldn’t worry if your dead then your dead but I am sure that the insurance would cover what was required wether it be repatriated or sent up in the chimney in Thailand you need to read the small print.

https://www.expatfocus.com/expatriate-thailand-death

 

Just my point of view here so no flames please!

 

When I die (not if!) I couldn't give a monkey's about what happens to my body. In UK I have an Advance Decision (aka "living will") that says:

 

 

In other words I'm dead - so <deleted> it!

I have no living family so if I die outside UK, whoever finds me will have to work it out for themselves. If they contact the one person who is named in my passport (an old and trusted friend), she has a copy of my AD so can decide to do nothing.......as she knows.  She's also my Executrix but there's no legal obligation on her to deal with my body...just my Estate which is worth the effort!

 

Edited April 21, 20197 yr by VBF

57 minutes ago, VBF said:

Just my point of view here so no flames please!

 

When I die (not if!) I couldn't give a monkey's about what happens to my body. In UK I have an Advance Decision (aka "living will") that says:

 

 

In other words I'm dead - so <deleted> it!

I have no living family so if I die outside UK, whoever finds me will have to work it out for themselves. If they contact the one person who is named in my passport (an old and trusted friend), she has a copy of my AD so can decide to do nothing.......as she knows.  She's also my Executrix but there's no legal obligation on her to deal with my body...just my Estate which is worth the effort!

 

VBF,  you are basically dumping responsibility for your funeral/disposition of your remains to no one.  Most likely your corpse will reside in cold storage until someone, maybe your Executor, takes some action on your behalf.

Unbelievable question  -  just stay home!

Via notarized letter in your wallet, donate your body to a crocodile farm. Avoid all those expenses. Your family can put up a marker, much as they do for those lost at sea.

Jeez.

2 hours ago, kokopelli said:

VBF,  you are basically dumping responsibility for your funeral/disposition of your remains to no one.  Most likely your corpse will reside in cold storage until someone, maybe your Executor, takes some action on your behalf.

Well if i'm in the UK, she, my Executrix will do just that - read my post again please.

This thread is about what happens if one is OUT of the UK, specifically in Thailand. If that happens, I simply don't care what happens to my useless corpse  as long as a Death Certificate is issued to allow my Will to be executed. 

1 hour ago, VBF said:

Well if i'm in the UK, she, my Executrix will do just that - read my post again please.

This thread is about what happens if one is OUT of the UK, specifically in Thailand. If that happens, I simply don't care what happens to my useless corpse  as long as a Death Certificate is issued to allow my Will to be executed. 

Op there are too many negative people here on TVF that makes you wonder what sort of lives they have.

I will be cremated in the local Wat and my wife, (and family back in Oz) will arrange for the bones/ashes to be repatriated to Oz to be placed in the same cemetery as my parents. Organize everything before you go.

My parents both wanted their ashes scattered in the same place.  So one rainy day I walked out on the end of the dock and thew them in the ocean with the old coke cans and seaweed and other flotsam and jetsam.  Awe inspiring eh?

7 minutes ago, GreasyFingers said:

Op there are too many negative people here on TVF that makes you wonder what sort of lives they have.

I will be cremated in the local Wat and my wife, (and family back in Oz) will arrange for the bones/ashes to be repatriated to Oz to be placed in the same cemetery as my parents. Organize everything before you go.

Yours was a response to my post so i assume you consider me negative......

 

Some of us are enjoying wonderful lives, but when that life is over it's over. What happens to the corpse is quite unimportant, especially as I said earlier that I have no living relatives about whom to be concerned. As both my parents chose to be cremated, there's no issue there either. When I'm dead, my corpse is just a useless item unless (as I said above) it can be used for research, medicine etc. 

What's negative about that?

My will states I want my ashes scattered on the nearest available golf course, to fertilize the grass so that golfers after me cannot use the excuse of poor lies.

2 minutes ago, VBF said:

Yours was a response to my post so i assume you consider me negative......

 

Some of us are enjoying wonderful lives, but when that life is over it's over. What happens to the corpse is quite unimportant, especially as I said earlier that I have no living relatives about whom to be concerned. As both my parents chose to be cremated, there's no issue there either. When I'm dead, my corpse is just a useless item unless (as I said above) it can be used for research, medicine etc. 

What's negative about that?

The Op was asking for advice. I am not sure if he appreciated yours (and I was referring to others as well) that would not have been helpful to him.

5 minutes ago, GreasyFingers said:

The Op was asking for advice. I am not sure if he appreciated yours (and I was referring to others as well) that would not have been helpful to him.

Is Thailand doing the composting thing yet?  https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/washington-on-the-cusp-of-becoming-first-state-to-legalize-human-composting/

 

Seems like a natural for the beer and wine industry and expats

Edited April 21, 20197 yr by marcusarelus