As an Expat: How do you feel about dying in Thailand? Will you be happy about it?

[1FinickyOne]

5 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

I have zero fear of death

on to the next thing

[khunPer]

Of course, when you get older, you begin to think more about the final encore.

 

However, I don't worry too much about dying – when I'm, gone there is either no more, or I'm in a Seventh Heavens og some place below – but rather the time before. Who will take care of me, and how will it work out?

 

I have a fairly younger than me girlfriend, and the original deal is that I took care of her – and still does – and she will in return take care of me when I get old enough to need caretaking. The only aber dabai is, if it will work that expected way in the end, when I get old and more grumphy than now, and even beginning to forget...

[cjinchiangrai]

Here is as good a place as any and they throw great wakes.

[SpaceKadet]

Wouldn't bother me where I die. If I'm dead, I'm dead... Just throw my corpse out of the way and let me decompose so I can give back to the Mother Earth what I have taken to sustain my life.

 

The dead don't feel anything, it's the living that suffer the loss...

[RetiredNavy71]

23 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Then, in this case, you are lucky you are not a sailor, one who might be buried at sea, as so many sailors have been, throughout the ages.

 

 

I did almost 21 years in the US Navy and no i wasn't buried at sea.  In other words I'm still alive and kicking 

[The Fugitive]

10 hours ago, khunPer said:

Of course, when you get older, you begin to think more about the final encore.

 

However, I don't worry too much about dying – when I'm, gone there is either no more, or I'm in a Seventh Heavens og some place below – but rather the time before. Who will take care of me, and how will it work out?

 

I have a fairly younger than me girlfriend, and the original deal is that I took care of her – and still does – and she will in return take care of me when I get old enough to need caretaking. The only aber dabai is, if it will work that expected way in the end, when I get old and more grumphy than now, and even beginning to forget...

Same here, Thai wife is eleven years younger than I. However, things can change. In October 2024 she was diagnosed with stage 2-3 breast cancer. Read that chemotherapy ages you by 10-15 years. Plus, leaves you more susceptible to leukaemia. 

[Brian J]

On 3/17/2025 at 2:44 AM, mstevens said:

One of the reasons I left Thailand is that I really didn't like the idea of getting seriously sick there and dying there. I can't put my finger on why I feel this way, but I'd rather my life end in the country where it began.

When you die you won't know or care where you are. I'd rather be sick in Thailand than USA. Have you seen figures for medical bankruptcy in that hellhole? It will only get worse as Autistic Elon empties the already meagre social welfare coffers and gives it to Trump sycophants

[GammaGlobulin]

6 hours ago, RetiredNavy71 said:

I did almost 21 years in the US Navy and no i wasn't buried at sea.  In other words I'm still alive and kicking 

 

I was referring to sailors like the likes of Billy Budd, and many others.

 

[ChipButty]

1 hour ago, The Fugitive said:

Same here, Thai wife is eleven years younger than I. However, things can change. In October 2024 she was diagnosed with stage 2-3 breast cancer. Read that chemotherapy ages you by 10-15 years. Plus, leaves you more susceptible to leukaemia. 

Not necessarily, my wife is now at 8 years in January just gone, she has done superb, the operation was done within weeks, here in Phuket, I was worried about the Chemo I thought she was going to die on me one night she was that bad, but she survived only now has to go once a year for a checkup, as for the aging well she looks younger, her hair came back stronger, and she still works,