When your relative or friend dies in Thailand, you need to have a death certificate to prove the cause of death as well as other details. However, in Thailand there are more than 1 document related to one’s death that will be produced. For most situations involving the death of a foreigner in Thailand, there will be an initial police report about the death that is made. This happens if your relative dies in his or her apartment, condo, home, or other places of this sort. Typically in this scenario, the body is discovered by a spouse, partner, maid, housekeeper, building management, or the police themselves.

Following this initial report, the body must be dealt with. We have provided information about how to deal with the body on another page of the TFL website. If this process is taken care of, then the initial death certificate will be provided. This initial death certificate will give the time and place of death, as well as a very basic cause of death. However, the full cause of death will need to be produced on the official death certificate, which is provided by the relevant government office. With this official death certificate from the government office, the next step of dealing with death in Thailand can be taken care of – managing one’s property and other assets in Thailand.

As most of our website has provided, TFL has provided some common questions and answers in the form of a FAQ seen below.

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