Posted on 04/20/2023 5:23:53 PM PDT by billorites
“Knowing their husband and father was callously and casually left in a beverage cooler, stripping him of his dignity in the sacred time just after his passing,”
The cruise line shouldn’t have done that, but this reads like a hysterical widow acting her heart out to get a big settlement.
Where’s Bernie? That kidder.
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If I know these cruise lines, she will be offered a life long at sea ticket. Sail for free forever.
Now we know why the rates are skyrocketing. Morgan and Morgan getting rich off our fares.
Sounds like the cruise ship did the best they could in a bad situation. Only in america can someone win the lottery for getting their feelings hurt.
They couldn’t put him on ice with the seafood?
Sad story, but the above statement is meaningless since it lacks any comparative assessments of age of the passengers, morbidity rates in that population, deaths on other ships, etc.
What were they supposed to do? When did the morgue cooler break down? I guess burial at sea would have been an option.
the ideas and mental images will surely never leave the memory of the plaintiffs
Who described it to them? That wasn't very kind. I mean, it wasn't going to be an open casket, but perhaps they could have withheld some of the gruesome details.
the lawsuit demands at least a million dollars
Oh, now it makes sense.
We were on a Princess cruise a few years ago and saw a guy drop dead on the dance floor. Staff sauntered in slowly and unobtrusively, scooped up the guy, and they were gone in one minute. Nobody missed a beat — literally. Some on the dance floor didn’t even know it had happened.
He was offloaded at the next port, and wasn’t stockpiled among the snacks.
That would depend on the presence or absence of complementary drinks for the obligatory toast.
Because I reckon most cruise ships are not equipped with a Corpse Coller.
Fer eff sake people, find something better to complain about.
37 deaths in 21 years is less than 2 per year.
Celebrity Cruises apparently has a fleet of 16 vessels. Just running down the list and mentally adding up the midpoint of passenger capacities, they could have 36,000 passengers at sea at any point. Say they’re all week-long cruises . . . that’s 1.8 million passengers per year. Times 21 years.
37 deaths out of 37 million people. Literally one in a million. Maybe the safest places on Earth.
Tacky, but probably legal under the circumstances and due to obtaining the widow’s permission to transport him back by means available to the ship.
I’ve sailed on Equinox 4-5 times. Most recently in Jan. An older but classic ship. I’d go again; in a heartbeat!
Well its kind of insulting what they did to a dead persons body. Apply the Golden Rule and I am sure those people would not like it being done to them or their family members. It also made it impossible to do an effective autopsy or have an open casket funeral.
My dad always wanted to go on a long cruise but my mom didn’t care for being on ships. He would have loved the idea of being buried at sea (Navy, WWII).
Your mom didn’t care for being on ships, but she married a sailor. haha
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