When Your Child Has Died Abroad

One of a series of leaflets published by The Compassionate Friends 2 Contents Introduction............................................................................................................ 3 Contacting the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) ........ 3 Finding out.............................................................................................................. 4 Preparing to travel to where your child has died............................................... 6 If you do not travel to where they died............................................................... 9 If you were already abroad with your child...................................................... 10 If your child’s body is not found......................................................................... 10 The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) .......................... 11 Communications, legal matters and customs in a foreign country............... 12 Funeral arrangements and repatriation .......................................................... 13 Travel or personal accident insurance.............................................................. 14 Bringing your child home.................................................................................... 14 Legal processes that may follow........................................................................ 15 The places we go to remember our child.......................................................... 16 Our life now and into the future........................................................................ 17 Suggestions for further reading......................................................................... 18 Leaflet sponsors ................................................................................................... 19