mortality

WHO 2023 baseline ×2 foreigner factor ×2.5 age vulnerability: a 67-year-old UK scooter rider in Thailand carries ~53× home-country road-death exposure. The arithmetic, not the warning.

The classical 35°C wet-bulb ceiling is a young body. The older compensable threshold is 28.5°C. Bangkok breaches it in April. The pension brochure prices none of this.

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.