This IUD doesn't have any close family members.
If he did, he wouldn't need to ask "Lib" to claim his body. If Lib was his wife, sister, daughter... what ever next of kin - of course they would claim his body. Who else would?
Sounds to me like he knew that there wouldn't be anyone obvious to claim him, and so he had to write Lib to explicitly request that she(he?) do so.
$600.00 is a lot of money to bring on a camping trip. But you also need to consider the age if the IUD, and that it may have been almost 15 years ago. The first time I traveled to the States (I'm from Canada) was in '99, and I brought cash only with me. I didn't know if my ATM card would work across the border, and in 99 we had only been using them for a few years anyhow.
My guess is that the cash was meant for his return trip to where ever he was from.
And like most people, he may not have realized how serious the problem in with missing and unidentified. He may have just figured that someone would miss him, and that there would be a search and he would be easily found. Which is of course often not the case.
If he did, he wouldn't need to ask "Lib" to claim his body. If Lib was his wife, sister, daughter... what ever next of kin - of course they would claim his body. Who else would?
Sounds to me like he knew that there wouldn't be anyone obvious to claim him, and so he had to write Lib to explicitly request that she(he?) do so.
$600.00 is a lot of money to bring on a camping trip. But you also need to consider the age if the IUD, and that it may have been almost 15 years ago. The first time I traveled to the States (I'm from Canada) was in '99, and I brought cash only with me. I didn't know if my ATM card would work across the border, and in 99 we had only been using them for a few years anyhow.
My guess is that the cash was meant for his return trip to where ever he was from.
And like most people, he may not have realized how serious the problem in with missing and unidentified. He may have just figured that someone would miss him, and that there would be a search and he would be easily found. Which is of course often not the case.