General Medical issues thread

[JohnK]

She can transfer it. It just won't be helpful in improving her financial position, at all. And a will in place does not avoid tax.

Hopefully my daughter can end up with the whole house without stupid, ludicrous taxes. That's what we have to avoid at all costs.

@Quickstatus I think you're right. It looks like they will be organising respite care for dad and the cost is 85% of pension. I may be totally mistaken but I think dad would be entitled to 63 days respite care per year.

 

[Quickstatus]

think dad would be entitled to 63 days respite care per year.

That is correct

 

[JohnM]

Well one of the wealthy Americans on Silversea cruises had a full time carer and was wheelchair bound. Sometimes the carer was a nurse and sometimes her niece. We met them on an Expedition cruise up the west coast of Africa. The crew carried her into the zodiacs and her wheelchair came with her. She even got to see a pygmy village which was on her bucket list. She died on board 2 days after we left the ship in Accra, Ghana. She was 95.

Was she buried at sea?

I think that would have completed the story.

 

[drron]

Was she buried at sea?

I think that would have completed the story.

I don't think she was but not sure. The Silversea ships at least back then had a mortuary.

 

[tgh]

an elegant way to vacate…. sewn up in canvas with a cannon ball and dropped over the side.. even the old (never say no) Silversea could not have managed that..

 

[OZDUCK]

A less elegant way to go is to die on a Japanese Long Line Tuna boat. You get put into the freezer hold alongside the Tuna.

I visited one of them in Fremantle in an official capacity while the state police were trying to work out if they could conduct a murder investigation after a crewmember was stabbed in an onboard fight. The short answer is that the WA Police had no jurisdiction over a death that occurred on a Foreign Flagged vessel in international waters despite its next port being in Australia.

 

[Quickstatus]

The short answer is that the WA Police had no jurisdiction over a death that occurred on a Foreign Flagged vessel in international waters despite its next port being in Australia.

The longer answer (see Jurisdictions at Sea Parliament of Australia) is that primary jurisdiction lies with the Flag State altough there might be a valid concurrent jurisdiction such as Next Port Jurisdiction. It is very complex to be sure