A death abroad: The grim business of bringing home the dead

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Thousands of people die abroad every year, from maladies, misadventure and murder. Len Williams explores the trying bureaucracy of everyone’s worst travel nightmare

The coffin of Trudy Jones, one of the victims of the 2015 terrorist attack in Tunisia, arriving in the UKspent eight hours hitting refresh on the shitty in-flight wifi to find out if my partner was still alive or not,” recalls Anna. In late 2019, the British expat was flying from the UK to the Middle Eastern country she’d moved to a few years earlier. “He died while I was on the plane.” It was, she says, “the worst flight ever”.

 

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