Demise: No thank you. Dying: Provides me a panic assault. Burial: Not today, make sure you. Of all the subjects I could write about, this one is my minimum preferred. It, in fact, could effortlessly deliver me into the mom of all anxiety matches. Nevertheless, it is necessary to go to the topic since I now live in another country.

Demise is a subject that I managed to steer clear of most of my life until January 2003, when my mom passed away. No more than seven months later, my youngest brother died of undetermined leads to. Easter Sunday 2004, my greatest friend died of kidney cancer.

Was God trying to tell me something?

So, here I am, living in Guanajuato, Mexico, with my spouse and I have no “arrangements” in the occasion of my demise. Maybe God was trying to tell me to wake up and scent the tacos.

Therefore, I made the decision to look into this. After all, what if something occurred to me and left my spouse as a survivor? What would or could she do? I did not want to depart her holding the bag (or coffin), so to speak. How horrible would that be?

Therefore, I did what any red-blooded American would do-I known as our attorney.

Our Mexican attorney is not only our abogado but also our friend. His name is Jesus but is known as “Chucho”. Don’t inquire me to clarify this because I haven’t the answer. His son, who is also Jesus, is known as “Chuchin”. They don’t use “junior”. Once more, I cannot clarify this.

Anyway, here is what Chucho informed us:

a) Just as in the U.S.A., you can get in touch with the services of a funeral home that will provide you a number of deals for burial or cremation. This can make feeling.

b) Depending on your immigration standing, you can make a statement of “arrangement” (I am translating this from Chucho’s Spanish so bear with me). In other words, you will make a sworn statement concerning your “arrangements” in front of a “Notario Pùblico”. This is not the same as a Notary Public in the United States. This is more like a legal representative-not a attorney but close.

c) Depart precise instruction with your Mexican bank. When we opened our bank account in Mexico, we not only had to designate a beneficiary but we also took out an insurance coverage coverage that covered demise, accidents, and dismemberment (Can you see why I hate speaking about this?-sheesh!).

Now, that is what Chucho stated and, if I am obtaining the translation correct, then I wish this assists. If it doesn’t then here is more morbid prose you can study.

In accordance to the U.S. Embassy in Mexico’s web site, “When a U.S. citizen dies overseas, the Embassy can notify the family at home and provide info about the options and costs of disposition of the remains. Expenses for planning and returning the remains from Mexico Town to the U.S. are high and the family must spend all costs. The Embassy also prepares a Report of Demise based on the local demise certificate. This Report can be utilized as proof of demise in most legal proceedings in the United States.”

What we plan to do is, well, die in Mexico. Why spend a little fortune that could conceivably be enough to wipe out the nationwide financial debt of Guatemala in sending our remains to The united states? The insurance coverage that we have with our bank will cover the costs of a Mexican funeral and cremation (our choice-it’s cheaper!).

The stage is don’t wait until something happens. Make arrangements as quickly as you expatriate to Mexico. Phone a local attorney and get this little unpleasantness used treatment of and then you can go into complete denial (as I do) that anything will ever occur to you.

My next phone call will be to a local shrink.

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