DYING ON AN INTERNATIONAL TRIP?

Death on an international trip. Coffins can frequently be bought at a flea market.

Old people are afraid of dying while on an international trip. Most are afraid of dying period; however, 99% of people die at some point, and once you reach 75 you are more aware of the probability that you will die; especially if you are going overseas.

Basically to make things easier, you need a 3 x 5 card:

• Embassy telephone number
• Insurance policy – Company and policy number.
• Airline and confirmation number.
• Emergency contact number.
• Home town physician and number.
• Hotel name and number.
• Family telephone numbers.
• Home town funeral home number.
• Tour operator number.
• Simple statement as to wishes. Cremate, ship home, bury abroad…etc.
• Travel insurance name, telephone and policy number.
• US Embassy number.

1. The simple solution for your representative or next of kin:
   1. Travel insurance to pay  for shipment of body, cremains.
   2. Contact the American Embassy where you are. They have a 24 hour number.
   3. Contact Funeral home in your home town.
   4. Carry on cremains in a sealed,  TSA approved, container.
   5. Have foreign mortuary ship body to your home-town mortuary.
   6. Collect belongings
   7. Get copies of all paperwork –  Embassy, police, doctors, hospitals, funeral homes, airlines, autopsy report, etc
   8. Notify: Embassy, family, police, funeral home,

   Remember that what is a unique and terrible experience for you is  a common event for the embassy, the funeral homes and the airlines.

THINK OLD!

Some useful web pages:

1. Cremation, burial, shipment home.
2. Embassy
3. American Air Lines
4. TSA