Posted on 12/04/2006 7:53:24 PM PST by james500
First Class travellers on a British Airways transatlantic flight were horrified when they were forced to sit next to a dead body for three hours.
The elderly passenger had died of a heart attack just minutes earlier and was carried into their cabin to continue the journey to America.
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"The human body seems so superior...
Considering I have to have an external source of vitamin C and my dog doesn't, I'd have to quibble with superiority of the body.
Obviously, looking at some of the posts here , I wonder if this FR, or DU, or WBC? No respect for the dead and dying. maybe I've just had a little bit too much death close at hand, but I don't find all the cutsie comments about a dying, or dead person funny. Watching loved ones die isn't fun, it's harder when you do everything you can to save them, and they still go.
People handle death differently.....I have an 84 yr old Father in law who was admitted to ICU today.....they say he'll be out in a couple three days....but, we know death's door is waiting....and I find these stories hilarious....and if I were the one dying, I would hope some could find humor in my life...er...death....as long as it wasn't a gruesome murder or attack.
The airline said there were about a dozen deaths aboard its planes each year - out of a total of 36million passengers.
This poor woman watched her husband have a heart attack and die and she never left his side. All of those that tried to help this man should be commended.
I could not imagine the anguish and depth of the saddness that she has been through because of these circumstances.
I was hoping someone looking to be offended would click on this thread, thanks.
Not really relevant, but many years ago my wife's great aunt died at a ripe old age in Switzerland, and my wife's uncle had to go over and make arrangements to bring back the body.
He had a coffin made, which was taken to the airport and went onto a conveyor and disappeared in the usual way, but when my wife's uncle got off the plane in New York, He was unable to find the coffin anywhere.
Finally it turned out that it had been put on the wrong plane and flown to Boston, where it was unloaded. I think he had to go to Boston, retrieve it again, and get it through customs, so it could be flown down to New York for the funeral. What a nightmare. He was a very proper bachelor uncle.
what a pleasant way to start a vacation
I understand! I came across a fresh corpse in the parking lot of my University. Some poor old prof had just snuffed it, his car keys were in his hands. What sticks in my mind was that he started pissing his pants right away, and farting. I ran to get help, but it was too late for the poor bastard.
You just cracked me up, big time...........LOL..........
My dog died in my arms, it wasn't her bladder that she voided, it was something else.
I was the only one present when my father passed away and it was quite a religious experience for me and made a born-again Christian out of me. So I take those things quite seriously. However, at the same time I found some of the statements on this thread funny and laughed out loud. I see no disrespect here. This is a Free Republic "chat" page for gosh sakes. It's not a morgue. Lighten up.
My Father and Grandfather were traveling in an auto in 1940 with a gentleman in the back seat during a 7 hour trip. The man in the back seat was talking to them.
After about 5 hours he didn't answer. They looked back and thought that he had falled asleep. WRONG!
They drove him home! Then the circus began!!
What in the hell is wrong with you?
How sad that he died . How sad that these people couldn't get past themselves.
Clark Griswald would just strap the body to the roof and keep going.
Oh great! Now there's another thing for me to worry about before I die! I'll go my entire life without farting (I'm female) and probably let it all out at the very end. My husband will be so shocked!
After watching several loved ones die slow and painful deaths, gasping for breath, I hope to go like this person on the plane, quickly and without warning. Not soon, mind you, but when I am about 99.
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