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Posted on 12/04/2006 7:53:24 PM PST by james500
They wanted it kept in First Class, and their shock and horror duly noted in all the papers, so they would be in good position to sue BA for the mental anguish they suffered when the airline failed to prohibit this man from dying whilst on board an aircraft.
-ccm
I'd like to pass away quietly in my sleep like Uncle Bill, not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car.
"I was hoping someone looking to be offended would click on this thread, thanks."
I don't think anyone was clicking on the thread and looking to be offended. They clicked on the thread to read the report. The offending part came after.
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"99"? Why so young?
I'll agree with your statement. As a twenty year vet of healthcare I've performed CPR probably thousands of times. It's not that often that the deceased voids and defecates.
About six weeks ago I suffered cardiac arrest while in the hospital. After 6-7 minutes of CPR a normal rhythm was established and I came out of the ordeal wthout the need to change my underwear.
You lose control of ALL sphincters when you die - that means no bladder control, no rectal control - to put it bluntly. Evey muscle in the body relaxes.
I need to check Snopes.com on this one. I've read of other hoaxes that sound an awful lot like this one.
This "report" has been verified, yes?
From the original article:
"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 passangers weren't "horrified" at all. This is a media report that relies upon Queen's English.
Look, somebody dies on the plane, what're you going to do with the body? Stick 'em in an overhead compartment? Burial at sea? Move 'em to the rear covered in some shroud? They boarded with a first class ticket, they land in the same seat.
Suppose that somebody died in coach and they landed stretched out in first class: the airline could hit up the bereaved for the difference in ticket, eh?
Cynicism and jaded only goes so far before I become repulsed utterly.
I'd rather slip "quietly" into the hereafter, and not have to listen to all the screaming passangers of the Jumbo I'm driving, ya know? That's why I'd keep the intercom OFF during the flight.
Congratulations on making it back. It changes your outlook on life to come out after that, doesn't it? Hope you make a full recovery.
Actually, he had a Club World (business class) ticket. He got upgraded.
Amen, brother. Amen.
I never knew people could ask such blatantly stupid and uncaring questions.
God help me if my time to leave this earth is on a plane. Apparently the other passengers will think that I've been carelessly diregarding their comfort level.
How typical that the British were more concerned about the movie than that one among them had died. Stiff pecker (equivalent to our stiff upper lip, don't think I was being porno with that statement) and all that.
No wonder my forebears left that sorry Island and came to America. And thank God they did, as early as they did. I just don't get the "Brits".
You think that's bad. Back in the late eighties, a British Midlands 737-400 crashed after the pilots shut off the wrong engine after one of the engines caught of fire. The passengers noticed that the pilots mentioned the wrong engine, but did not try to get that information back to the pilots. I don't think Americans would just sit there and not try to inform the pilot that the wrong engine was shut down.
Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia.
Shutting down the wrong engine
The captain (Kevin Hunt) believed the right engine was malfunctioning due to the smell of smoke, because in previous Boeing 737 variants, bleed air from the engines for the air conditioning system was taken from this engine. However, starting with the Boeing 737-400 variant, Boeing redesigned the system so both engines fed it. Several cabin staff and passengers also noticed that the left engine had a stream of unburnt fuel igniting in the jet exhaust, but this information was not passed to the flight crew, because they thought that the pilots knew what they were doing.
Besides the unfortunate coincidence of the smoke disappearing when the autothrottle was disengaged to shut down the right engine, another problem may have been that pilots had got into the habit of disregarding the readings of vibration warning meters; early ones were unreliable but the flying crew of G-OBME do not seem to have been aware that newer ones were more reliable. The dials were also much smaller than the previous model of 737 that they had most of their experience on. The pilots had received no simulator training on the new model; no simulator for the 737-400 existed in the UK at that time.
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Shocking!
:-)
My paternal grandmothers sister, my great aunt died at age 116 in remarkably good health, she was the oldest person in the US at the time. I take after that side of the family, so I guess 110 is possible. Both sides of my family are long lived except my mothers side lives a long time in poor health, except for the WW2 generation who smoked. That didn't live as long as the others and died with breathing problems.
LOL
Whoa ... glad you are still with us, and with your dignity intact no less!
Hide the bong, guys. Dad's home.
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