Couple forced to sit next to dead body on plane for 4 hours after woman dies mid-flight
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On a related note, why don't more people just drop dead while driving a car? Like I can't think of a single story that I'm aware of that went "yeah he had a heart attack and then ran the car off the road"
I feel like it should be a daily occurrence
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Probably because after they do, they crash and it will generally be assumed the crash is what killed them.
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I used to work with a lady who, upon missing her shift, the next day the managers were all going around quietly telling staff that she died on her way to work, that she’d had a massive stroke while driving. New fear unlocked that day. But yeah I guess you don’t hear about it on the news because the may just assume car accident is what causes the fatalities.
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That’s right. I’m a doctor.
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A baby’s shitty diaper pales in comparison to the recently deceased evacuation of bowels of an adult human.
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See Harry Chapin.
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Are you sure because too many times I’ve been on a 2hr flight and there’s a line for the lav the entire time. It’s a mystery I will never understand.
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World’s (or at least, That Plane’s) Worst Dad
Thanks for nothing, Peter.
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Just put on the seatbelt sign and do a parabolic arc to simulate microgravity. Way easier to nudge a body around then!
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I seem to be in the minority, but the baby.
Kids are awesome. Little bundles experiencing new things constantly. It's fucking cool.
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Why not secure it in a flight attendant seat in the back and the flight attendant take the seat next to the living people?
It makes the most sense.
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I've sat next to many a passenger who was dead from the neck upwards.
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Slightly unrelated, but last time I vomited during a flight they refused to take the bag and throw it away. I had to sit there for 6 hours, holding an uncloseable plastic bag full of my own vomit. Next to other passengers. Like, I get that it's technically some kind of hazard waste that flight attendants shouldn't have to handle, but the alternative is me potentially accidentally spilling it on or near other passengers. I had to carry it off the plane with me like it was my carry-on. It was absolutely ridiculous.
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I knew someone that was orphaned in high school because his dad had a heart attack, crashed, killed himself and his wife.
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It's going to be real weird when self driving cars finally work and sometimes cars just pull up with a dead body in it.
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I’m interested as to why they moved the body in the first place.
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Yeah no I knew someone that had that happen, he managed to park on the emergency lane and it took a while for someone to figure out that he was dead.
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According the article she came out of the bathroom and collapsed so you can't just leave her in the aisle to be fair
It is really wild that they didn't have the other passengers put into new seats even after they asked though
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Psh. Like a doctor would offer to give healthcare for free!
(/s for most docs - they can be assholes sometimes, but the vast majority are in it for the right reasons)
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In his autobiography Ozzy Osborne related a story about the guy next to him dying on a flight. He informed the flight attendant who gave him the choice of moving seats or staying put with free drinks for the remainder of the flight, so he stayed in place and got blasted out of his mind.
