Couple forced to sit next to dead body on plane for 4 hours after woman dies mid-flight
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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.
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Oh, ok. To be fair someone has to be standing for people to notice they’ve collapsed.
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I imagine a contributing factor is that most people who drop dead randomly are of an age where they generally don't drive, or don't drive as much.
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I wonder if it's one of those kinds of deaths that just makes the local paper unless they take out a lot of people with them.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7847085/ article discussing 21 fatal heart attacks while driving during a period of time in china
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23343022/
article discussing the results of the Finnish Road Accident Investigation Teams (RAITs) on fMVAs in Finland during 2008-2009. 11% of these were because of "disease attack."Severe injuries may mask the role of an initial disease attack.
These articles make it seem like unless there's careful investigation after the fact, it's very difficult to know for sure if illness caused the accident.
So it probably is a daily occurance, depending on how many fatal accidents happen in your country. (and depending on a million other factors, most likely)
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I'd sit next to a dead person on every damn flight if I had the choice.
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No more fighting for the armrest, no snoring, no chit chat? Well…
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I lost the first car I'd purchased outright to a "dead behind the wheel' driver, and I wasn't even in it!
A friend had borrowed the car, just a couple weeks after buying it, and was stopped at an intersection - An older man had a heart attack, barreled through the intersection, hit a pole, and then kept turning and t-boned my friend in my car. No injuries (other than the dead guy) but my car was totaled. Insurance payout was super!
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Damn, I've never seen an uncloseable barf bag before. Usually that have those metal tabs at the top to close it up and mitigate the smell. Flying is shitty enough as it is, what an awful experience! Sorry you had to go through that.
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So why move her to a previously empty seat instead of back to her assigned one?
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I feel like if they had asked for volunteers to sit next to the body they would have gotten some. It's morbid, yes, but on a practical level it's more comfortable than being squished next to a living stranger.
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Joke's on Ozzy if that was an international flight, you get free drinks on those whether or not someone next to you dies
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The news just doesn't report shit like that.
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So the road toll might not actually be because of cars
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What? I flew Rome to New York and everyone got a tiny water bottle for the entire flight and all other drinks (including more water) were crazy expensive
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Same. Plus I can tell the parent that they are doing great. Maybe even help somehow, even if it is just to open the snacks.
