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Old 12-21-2011, 01:06 AM
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Sorry for the loss of your friend. I travel overseas alot for work and every country is different. It is good to have a forward plan for overseas deaths because the US State Dept is almost no help overseas. Other thing to consider if you are going to retrieve a body in another country, sometimes getting a visa just to enter a country can take months.
There was a young lady from Lafayette who was hit by a car and killed in South Africa during the FIFA World Cup a year ago and they had to hold a fundraiser in Laf. to raise some money to bring her body back. $10K seems to be the magic figure in try to expedite things. The western world places a higher value on life and death than other countries.
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