That would interfere with the TV antenna, Silly!
Posted on 01/15/2008 2:01:36 PM PST by nmh
A family drove hundreds of miles with their dead grandmother in the back of their recreational vehicle to fulfill the ailing woman's wishes.
They arrived in Hillsboro, Ore., on Sunday with the body and notified police. The 79-year-old woman, who likely died in Wyoming, was in poor health but wished to see family members in Arkansas before she passed away.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,322806,00.html
More here:
Update: Grandmother's last family trip ends in Hillsboro after her death in Wyoming
by The Oregonian Monday January 14, 2008, 12:51 PM The woman was last seen alive by the family about 3 a.m. Saturday near Laramie, Wyo., he said.
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"We believe they were about 1,100 miles from Hillsboro when she passed away," Rouches said. "We believe they were in Wyoming. That's based on gas receipts."
Rouches said the woman's doctors told family members the frail grandmother might not survive the trip.
Hillsboro Police were called at about 9 a.m. Sunday.
Rouches stressed that the death was not a police matter, despite its seemingly unusual nature, because no law had been broken. Because it was not a police matter, Rouches did not release the woman's name.
"People die every day," Rouches said. This could happen more frequently than we know." He said Hillsboro police were called by family members who drove her to Oregon because they wanted to report the death to authorities.
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http://www.oregonlive.com/washingtoncounty/index.ssf/2008/01/hillsboro_family_finishes_rv_t.html
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How could they be traveling with her in this condition?
Furthermore if she was so ill, why weren't they more watchful that she was okay?
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,322806,00.html
http://www.oregonlive.com/washingtoncounty/index.ssf/2008/01/hillsboro_family_finishes_rv_t.html
In the back of the RV? Not up on top?
The Griswalds!
I hate to admit it - but that was my first thought!
Honestly, why didn’t the relatives come to HER?
At least they wasn’t going to “Wally World”.
Did they leave her body in a rocking chair?
The Griswalds!
YES, that’s the family I was thinking of ... .
That would interfere with the TV antenna, Silly!
1100 miles? And they didn't check on her during that distance? How many hours do you figure that is? My guesstimate is around 15 hours. She didn't need food, water, to use the bathroom for 15 hours? Not too caring a family IMHO.
Good question.
“1100 miles? And they didn’t check on her during that distance? How many hours do you figure that is? My guesstimate is around 15 hours. She didn’t need food, water, to use the bathroom for 15 hours? Not too caring a family IMHO.”
I don’t understand it!
It’s not like she was a suitcase.
I’m normally hugnry after traveling that far and need to go to the bathroom. Guess, I’m odd.
No, you’re normal.
All I can figure is that the death of someone close to you can make you somewhat irrational. In this case, it sounds like she died of TMBD (too many birth days), and she wanted to finish the trip, so her family carried out her dying wish. Seems irrational (and frankly was) from the outside, but probably made “sense” to her family at the time.
It’s a strange, strange world sometimes...
Thanks ... between politics and news items like this ... I feel like an alien. Just today, in lovely NJ, Corzine, our governor, decided to comment on doing away with capital punishment and “feels good about it”. Meanwhile he’s all for abortion and hoping to change “domestic partnerships” to “civil unions” in the near future.
Little Miss Sunshine!
Her wish to be remembered as a punchline in reference to National Lampoon's Vacation?
Or her wish to be remembered as a punchline in reference to Little Miss Sunshine?
Thanks - brings back memories - a funny movie.
Great! Another sequel. The Griswold family drives to Wally World in Eddie's tenement on wheels.
and I feel like a sicko, because I find this funny...although I would not if this happened to my mom. Judging from the responses, though, I don’t think I am the only one who finds this amusing.
It’s a strange strange world.
As far as the family coming to visit her, when my dad was in the military and we'd come home to visit relatives from wherever we were stationed, traveling hundreds of miles, there were relatives who still wouldn't travel 20 miles from their houses to where we were staying to see us. It used to make my mom so mad!
Who says they didn't know she was dead?
Think about this for a minute or two.
Suppose you are on a family trip and heading home when your elderly relative passes away in your RV. What do you do?
If you stop at the nearest town, you are going to be there for weeks, filling out paperwork and dealing with red tape. The expense will be enormous and completely unnecessary.
If you complete your drive home, you will be at home, in familiar surroundings, with friends and other relatives. And, her doctor will be there to make sure that everyone "official" knows this was an expected death from natural causes and not some nefarious plot to do her in for an inheritance.
BINGO!!!
Yep,
icky,
but the most practical of all choices.
I hadn’t considered that ... .
Shades of “Grapes of Wrath”.
Ping
I remember reading his book The Red Pony.
When we were out in California we went to see a museum on him. I didn’t realize just how much of a leftist he was!
WHEW!!
"Well, officer, we couldn't put her up on the roof because the dog was already there." Mitt Romney
I’m with Fred but if he drops out, it’ll be Mitt. The rest - too liberal or in the case of Huckabee - a fraud - politically and from a Christian perspective. Mike’s a humanist financing it through socialism. ANy Christian should be able to see through him. He should be ashamed of himself.
No, they last knew she was alive at 3 a.m. and by 9 a.m. they contacted the police that she had died. That’s only 6 hours, and certainly understandable considering that the passengers other than the driver were likely sleeping. They probably checked on her at 3 and she probably didn’t seem close to death to them and so they went back to sleep. It’s not always easy to tell, especially for those who are unfamiliar with the signs of imminent death. You can know someone is in their last days, but not know it could happen momentarily. Even medical people don’t always predict it accurately.
“No problem here, officer, grandma’s just a heavy sleeper.”
Monday, April 24, 2006
Woman nabbed driving corpse across country
BERLIN (Reuters) - A 53-year-old German woman who was driving her dead mother across country to save on mortuary transportation costs was fined by police for disturbing a dead person’s peace.
“You’re not allowed to transport dead people in your private car,” said Ralf Schomisch, police spokesman in Koblenz, where the car was found after a tip-off from a mortuary.
“The corpse was on the back seat without a seat belt, which in this case didn’t really matter. But it was covered up with clothing. It is a misdemeanour.”
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Oh my!
Um, read it again. The last time seen alive was 3:00am on Saturday. The contacted police at 9:00am Sunday. That would be 30 hours not 6.
I think they realized that she was gone at some point but so no sense in stopping til they got where they were going...seems strange but not as macabre as all that.
ping
She was dying, and they were trying to get her there before she died.
How sweet!
*sigh*
Why contact the police at all? They didn’t need the police. They needed a mortuary.
Which was back home.
The more I think about it, the more I can almost see why it happened this way. What point was there in stopping Wyoming, really? Some coroner would’ve been summoned, and they’d have made some (expensive) arrangements with a local funeral parlor to ship the body— to where they were going anyway.
Can’t say I would’ve done the same thing, but I can see it happening.
I can understand the argument of getting her home so as to avoid dealing with the hassles of other agencies in another state. I’m just confused as to why it appears it took so long to discover that she had passed.
That’s what I was thinking too, “Vacation” the movie.
I don’t see anything in the story that indicates how long she lay dead before they realized it. ...or how long they waited to call the cops. It only says when they called the cops.
You read Grapes of Wrath, too, huh?
First thing I thought of...
Same thing with their grandmother. They were just trying to make her last days what she wanted.
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