death

Post by **LAnative** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 4:59 pm

When you kick off there what do they do with the body if you aren't married? Do they bury you in some pauper's city plot or do they burn you up Buddhist style? I prefer the latter.
DQ BGB

Post by **chopsticks** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 5:12 pm

Have a look here :
www.thaiworldview.com/bouddha/ceremon6.htm

Post by **hhfarang** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 5:20 pm

The Embassy of your native country is notified and I suppose they attempt to find out if you have any family there. If so, their wishes are probably followed including shipping the remains home, burning or burying, provided of course that someone is willing to pay for it.

My wife and my closest friend (who are both much younger than me so hopefully will outlive me) have my instructions.

I don't know what would happen to the remains of a person who had no family anywhere or hadn't left any written instructions of his/her wishes.

Post by **charlesh** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 5:52 pm

maybe LAN would like to consider donating his to medical science - Einstein did!

Post by **chopsticks** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 6:27 pm

The website mentions too many unclaimed bodies ending up in hospitals and warns about

garbage incinerators...
Some charities may help out though

Post by **STEVE G** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 7:39 pm

Apparently a Buddhist style cremation at the local temple is not very expensive, so I suppose the thing to do would be to leave a sum of money in your will with instructions for that to be organised.
I know that Asians can be bad at trying to rip westerners off, but I think in this kind of matter you would be able to trust them as they do take such things seriously.

Post by **PeteC** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 7:48 pm

STEVE G wrote:Apparently a Buddhist style cremation at the local temple is not very expensive, so I suppose the thing to do would be to leave a sum of money in your will with instructions for that to be organised.
I know that Asians can be bad at trying to rip westerners off, but I think in this kind of matter you would be able to trust them as they do take such things seriously.

I think you're right Steve. I recall one in Pattaya that was around 7,000 Baht which included until dawn the next day in a sala for friends to come by and pay respects. Pete

Post by **migrant** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 7:53 pm

I'm dead, so just chuck me out the easiest way.

Post by **pitsch** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:07 pm

Do they really keep the corpse for 7 days in the house at this heat?

Post by **HHADFan** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:52 pm

pitsch wrote:Do they really keep the corpse for 7 days in the house at this heat?

At the only funeral I've attended, they used a refrigerated casket - sort of like a horizontal freezer with a window to view the face. The actual casket is kept inside the freezer (or refrigerator). This may vary from temple to temple. I've only seen one.

When asked if I wanted to see the body, the only reason I went was to see how they preserved it.

Post by **Randy Cornhole** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 1:02 am

Death the final frontier...

Post by **JoeDoc** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 2:33 am

The Thai / Farang fusion when dealing with death is akin to the case of a praying mantis, the female will often decapitate or even eat her mate during copulation, however, given that the sexual activity of a male mantis is controlled by a brain-like ganglion in his abdomen it may not be appropriate to refer to him as a "corpse", even when he is decapitated. The moral is you are already dead sir but your brain don't know it yet!

Post by **komfortablynumb** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 3:30 am

fascinating subject.
Little talked about in the west.
Same as the elderly just despatched to homes to while away there days sitting around cavernous rooms watching day time tv. (i suspect worse than death)
A difficult thought for ex pats, who by reasons of finance tend to err on the older end of the bodies march towards destruction.
Also the wishes of family many miles away have to be considered.
As a 55 year old male. Remembering 35 is the new 55 although no ones told my body.
Burn me at the temple. have a drink and laugh.
then spread my ashes on the land.
When the ants have finished whats left.
Maybe 1 coconut tree will grow stronger because of me.
So there we are my last will and testemant.
That's enough singha for me.

Post by **johnnyk** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 6:08 am

Dead person's worries are over. Not something I'm gonna fret about.
Frank, one-time manager of the famed Flamingo Hotel in Phnom Penh, died and was cremated a few years ago. His mates hired a barge and had a party while scattering his ashes on the Mekong.

Post by **norm** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 10:41 am

My wife is aware of my desires after death. She will have me cremated and keep the ashes until such time as she passes on. At that time the instruction are for the ashes of the two of us to be spread in the pacific somewhere. The only requirement is a warm location.

Then we can drift around the world together visiting some of the places we missed during life. Chances are we will come across my mother, brother and sister (and her yappy dog) as we put their ashes in the pacific off the east coast of Australia.

Sounds so much nicer than a hole in the ground. The worms crawl in the worms crawl out.

And a happy hereafter to all of you.