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, 

[Photoguy21]

I wont be happy or sad, I will be dead.

[Dirk Z]

On 3/17/2025 at 2:11 AM, Packer said:

Absolutely. Hopefully the doctors are a lot more open to sending me home to my bed with lots of really good painkilling drugs in my family's pockets should it come to that. Or the number of a broker that can sell them, at least.

I have seen it many times with my own eyes: they won't let you die and won't give too many painkillers. You might get addicted.

[newbee2022]

On 3/17/2025 at 1:53 AM, GammaGlobulin said:

Dear Folks,

 

Most people, try as they might, find it difficult to feel especially happy about dying.

 

However, in this LOS, might it be possible to just....

 

Go out with a smile?

 

I would say, as an expat myself, that if I were to die in Thailand, then I would be smiling.

 

Some expats say that living in Thailand is better than anywhere else.

 

And I say, too, that dying in Thailand is better than dying in most other places.

 

I feel at peace to know that I will expire here...that is....unless, for some reason...

My visas do not expire before me.

 

I still have many years to go, .....

 

And miles to go before I sleep,

And even more kilometers to go before I sleep.

 

Is Thailand pretty much the best place in the world...to...

DIE!

 

Yes, it is, but just IMHO.

 

Thailand is a place of peace for the living.

And, it is an even greater place of peace for those who are bout to die.

 

I SALUTE you....those of you who are about to die...and....I will...

Soon follow you, yet not so soon....

I hope.

 

Any thoughts about any better place to die, compared to Thailand?

 

Best regards,

 

Gamma

 

 

Ask me again next century

[GammaGlobulin]

26 minutes ago, Dirk Z said:

I have seen it many times with my own eyes: they won't let you die and won't give too many painkillers. You might get addicted.

 

That's right.

When terminally ill, and on your last legs...you become a...

CASH COW to the medial industry in the USA.

 

[Dirk Z]

9 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

That's right.

When terminally ill, and on your last legs...you become a...

CASH COW to the medial industry in the USA.

 

Actually I was talking about Thailand. Don't know how it is in USA.

[GammaGlobulin]

2 minutes ago, Dirk Z said:

Actually I was talking about Thailand. Don't know how it is in USA.

 

I think it is the same everywhere the medical industry can make money off the dying.

 

[Dirk Z]

If medical industry includes hospitals, then yes. For the dying there is not much money to be made out of pharmaceuticals. There is in all sorts of testing etc.

[Packer]

1 hour ago, Dirk Z said:

I have seen it many times with my own eyes: they won't let you die and won't give too many painkillers.

 

Are you talking about in Thailand or the west? 

 

I would imagine that doctors here are much more open to giving the phone number of a broker that can supply extreme level painkillers during the end of life process.

 

A few friends got abortions here, which is illegal, or was at least, medical clinics all gave the address of different abortion clinics that did it for 5000BAHT that were full of customers and operating in obvious full daylight. 

 

If it's anything like antibiotics then local motorcycle taxi drivers can prescribe them. 😂

[Dirk Z]

35 minutes ago, Packer said:

 

Are you talking about in Thailand or the west? 

 

I would imagine that doctors here are much more open to giving the phone number of a broker that can supply extreme level painkillers during the end of life process.

 

A few friends got abortions here, which is illegal, or was at least, medical clinics all gave the address of different abortion clinics that did it for 5000BAHT that were full of customers and operating in obvious full daylight. 

 

If it's anything like antibiotics then local motorcycle taxi drivers can prescribe them. 😂

Thailand 

[Thingamabob]

A darn sight better than dying in my home country. Here I will be cared for with affection to the point of death by a loving family. 

[Real Name Hidden]

The less fortunate go to Cambodia 

 

[Packer]

I feel like keeping the local heroin dealer's number in my phone now just incase I get something terminal.