mortality

Chiang Mai's air runs 3.6x the WHO limit year-round and the world's second-worst in season. Priced as a chronic dose, it costs over a year of life.

Widowed men carry a mortality hazard around 1.27, peaking near 1.41 in the first six months. Abroad and alone, every buffer the figure assumes is gone.

Sending a body from Thailand to the USA runs $10,000-$20,000 all-in, over 6-13 weeks, under a 30-day clock. The repatriation runbook, costed by leg.

Living alone raises mortality risk by a third, and the most exposed cohort abroad is the one no dataset counts. The sourced mechanism, stated cold.

One legally mandated dataset of deaths abroad exists, and by statute it excludes the death the aging expat is likeliest to have. The sourced count.