When someone dies in Thailand
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This guide gives advice about the death of a British person in Thailand, including information on burial, cremation and repatriation.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 6
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-17
- Category
- Governance & assurance
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
This guide gives advice about the death of a British person in Thailand, including information on burial, cremation and repatriation. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Register the death and obtain a death certificate
- Deal with a local post-mortem
- Get a letter to release a body
- If you're in the UK
- Bury or cremate the body locally
- Contact the travel insurance company
- What to do if the person who died didn't have insurance
- Charities and organisations that offer support
- Send the body to the UK
- Find an international funeral director
- Advice and financial assistance for repatriation
- Bring the ashes to the UK
- Retrieve belongings
- Find a translator
- Find a lawyer
- Cancel a passport
Source and licence
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
AttributionForeign, Commonwealth & Development Office, ‘When someone dies in Thailand’ (updated 20 November 2024), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.017/09/2026