Any wager on how many faked death insurance claims will be filed after a disaster like this with huge mass burials. Lot's of visiting tourists who could have easily gotten swept away.

Good way to just start a new life if you were there on vacation or business. Call your wife and say file the $1Million claim and I'll meet you in the Bahamas.

OK guys. Humans are meat to. We spoil just like any other piece of meat. If I stick you in a cubicle sized room that and stuck in 3 dead pigs and left you in there for a week with very little food and water just like the ppl in Asia, then you would get sick from something. Now take those dead carcasses and turn them into 120,000+ human bodies and expose them to the chili(?) nights and warm days when the sun is out. The meat will start to spoil and attract flies which attract diseases. And just think of all the blood spilled in the waters. Surely there's SOME form of waterborn diseases coming from dead bodies and their blood coming into contact with your eyes, mouth, open wounds, etc.

So YES I do think that the dead bodies can result in even more diseases. Just my $0.02.

- Undercover_Man

My father had a friend that did that in the Philippines in the 70s/80s... he was eventually caught, even saw him on a 60 minutes spot about insurance fraud.

I can say that it's not that easy based on another friend who's husband fell overboard on a boat in a lake. It took 7 years for her to get paid out. 7 years of extreme financial difficulty and roadblock after roadblock of the insurance company not paying out.

If you look at the charlatans of 9/11 they were eventually caught.

I agree however that someone will take advantage of this, maybe not for insurance fraud but just to start a clean slate or even assume someone else's identity ala The Beach ironically shot in Phi Phi, Thailand.