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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.

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.

Actually, he had a Club World (business class) ticket. He got upgraded.

Before there were retirement homes, nursing homes etc the norm was to have family, loved ones stay at home as they got up in years and they would die there also - and then be layed out and waked at home also in the living room. People were around death more, they were more comfortable with it and all. The last few days and weeks were not in a hospital but at home. So people have been nurtured to be uncomfortable, unfamiliar, awkward with it all except those maybe in health care and such.

You go through antique stores and will see boxes of photos and there will be pictures of relatives all layed out beautifully in the front parlor of the home with flowers and all surrounding them.

People this day and age are also more awkward about it because they are less spiritual, unchurched and even if they are religious the churches have taken the pc route in these regards and don't talk about death naturally and comfortably, all quite sterile and denial mode.

Then the religious aspect of this, that the body is something spiritual, sacred, holy - a vessel made by God Almighty Hismself, a physical body that He chooses to dwell in while we are on Earth - so with this an unbelievable reverence toward the physical body that was created by God by others during life and the death, so if this spirituality was present there would not be the awkward fuss about the little seemingly odd matters that are commented about.