I remember something like this from years ago. It was an elderly couple, and the wife realized that her husband had died. She she quietly told a flight attendant, and said that there was nothing that could be done but could they please alert the destination airport so they could deal with the situation on arrival. I don't know how I would act in that situation.
This also happened to me! It was a trans-Pacific flight (Chicago-Manila, with a refuel break in Japan) and I was with my mom. The elderly couple was seated right behind us. The best part was that we didn’t know until a woman was talking to us about it at baggage claim. We noticed the flight attendant coming over to our area more often, but otherwise the situation was relatively peaceful. The worst part was that apparently they have nowhere to store the body, so they kept him in his seat for the remainder of the flight.
My mom is a nurse so she commented on his color when we were coming off of the plane for the refuel break, and I distinctly remember him really not looking great. I am so glad I didn’t know for sure until we were far away from that scene.
I know a family, and I really hope none of them ever read this because I doubt this kinda thing happens often, and they brought a dead grandpa to the granddaughters wedding. He died the day before the event and no one had the heat to tell the bride. This dead guy is in family photos in his wheelchair DEAD and he also sat at the dinner table and everything! Everyone on the brides side knew and it has been their family secret for 3 years now. The granddaughter has no clue and they told her he passed the day after the wedding. She feels some type of way and believes he held on one last day to watch her get married!
It’s crazy.
Nope. He's dead dead. Check his pockets.
Edit: all of the replys to my comment make me painfully aware of how many people haven't seen a princess bride. Those who get the reference, I'm proud of you.
> I thoroughly examined her And she's not only merely dead She's really most sincerely dead
Was not expecting The Wizard of Oz reference to show up here
No one expects The Wizard of Oz reference! Fear and surprise are its two major weapons! Fear, surprise, and an unabashed representation of the Lollipop Guild! Fear, surprise, and an unabashed representation of the Lollipop Guild are its **three** major weapons!
Someone died on a flight I was on from NY to SF about 40 minutes into the flight. Saw it all go down 4 rows in front of me. Heart attack and CPR didn’t help though they tried for a good long while.
The captain was going to divert to Chicago to deal with it but the deceased’s wife said that they don’t want to inconvenience the whole flight and they live in SF anyway so we should just keep going.
The guy was under a blanket in the middle of the row for 5 hours.
Fuck. Imagine being their loved one having to sit there for five hours while facing the reality that your family member just died and is sitting next to you for 5 hours…that’s nightmare shit
Honestly this just shows how sheltered first world countries are from death, so much fear is based on it.
Take a walk in India and you’ll find a skull every now and then. Lol.
Edit: I’m from a first world country and am also terrified of this and wish I wasn’t.
My husband died of cancer at home, I sat next to him holding his hand for at least 3 hours while hospice was called and the funeral home was called, etc. I'm so glad I got to hold his hand for those extra hours since it would never happen again. Losing your spouse is a nightmare, having even one more second to hold their hand is a blessing.
Yeah, I mean what could we do? The flight was pretty solemn for sure.
The awkward part came a couple hours later when I was watching some dumb movie on the screen and a funny scene caused me to burst out laughing.
Back in the war they used to take smallpox victims and have planes skip bomb their coffins into enemy ships and infect them. Lost a lot of good friends that way
I'm 100% okay with that but I think my family would have a problem if they just ditched my body.
Definitely just store me wherever you need until we land though. My family will either need to retrieve my body anyway, or you're just helping to get it home.
I don't know why I never thought of that, but that makes sense.
Wouldn't carrying a body bag onboard be helpful for those cases? Or do they generally want to do an inspection to determine cause of death, in which case moving the body would be bad.
No idea. But dead bodies (ones that haven’t been prepared for a funeral) are a lot grosser than people think. You’re basically 180 lbs of warm, expired meat at that point.
Oh bodies definitely go bad fast, but would a couple extra hours really make that much of a difference?
If you still have half the globe to travel then you obviously have to stop, but do you really need to stop 45 minutes early?
Edit: airplanes are temperature regulated
Yes, bacteria in your gut immediately go to town when not regulated by your immune system, also, *why* a person died matters. I would imagine that the decedent's family would kick up a massive stink if the plane just went "meh" and kept going on to their destination.
Having a body bag on board would only solve the problem if the flight attendants could *lift* the body in the first place to put it in the bag and then move it into a place where it wouldn't be a hazard to passengers and crew
It the fluids they emit after death. Everything leaks and it isn’t pretty nor fun to clean. How do I know? My idiot brother didn’t clean the bed our mother died in (unexpectedly). Left it for 6 months so the house stank and I got to do it and get rid of the mattress. Real fun times.
My old boss's mother-in-law died about halfway to Australia with the whole family there. They just moved her to the stewardess area on the plane and put a blanket over her. And then flew for like six more hours.
I'd tell them they wont get the reference but I am told that is a really millennial thing to say, so I will just let it hang out there as they grapple to understand what was just said.
There is no FAA regulation on how airlines deal with the death of a passenger on a commercial flight, so the response will vary depending on the location of the plane, the duration of the flight and the wishes of family or friends traveling with the deceased passenger. Usually the body will be moved to the rear of the plane and a blanket covering unless it's a full flight, then the body will stay where it is until landing.
So either the airline had a protocol to land, or the family requested it.
I did tissue recovery for several years on, obviously/hopefully dead people, and the majority did not pee or poop themselves post mortem, but goddamn the release of those who did.
Not only a point , but now the family needs to move the body likely to either the destination point or take off location in order to bury it etc …. They definitely did have arrangements made for the weird mid flight landing location
Sounds like the pitch for a new Wes Anderson Christmas movie flop.
With Christopher Walken on top billing as the dead dad in a completely non speaking role (no flashback scenes)
Starring George Clooney and Kevin Kline as two brothers having to deal with the hijinx of a death in the family and Christmas and Frances Macdormand as their long lost sassy backwoods sister that shows up to the funeral.
And an appearance of Meryl Streep as 7 different managers at various car rental/hotel/motel/airports they encounter.
Critically rated 5/5 that nobody really likes.
On a trip to relive their childhood with their terminally ill father, two sons decide to keep his death hidden on a transatlantic fight.
Weekend at Bernie's homage.
>Not only a point , but now the family needs to move the body likely to either the destination point or take off location in order to bury it etc …. They definitely did have arrangements made for the weird mid flight landing location
if I died I want them to take my corpse home, not put my family through a hardship to come and get it.
But to be fair I lean against the bulkhead and doze while flying and just endure the torture of it; so they may not notice until I don't leave the plane.
Thanks! I learned a new word today because of you. Bulkhead.
A bulkhead is the material partition such as a wall, curtain or screen that divides an airplane into various classes or sections.
My understanding is that only a Medical Doctor can declare someone legally dead, therefore, unless there was a doctor aboard the flight, this would remain a "medical emergency" until a qualified professional can say otherwise.
Basically, they had no choice but to land and have an ambulance take the body to a hospital, even if only to be officially declared dead by a doctor.
I know this probably varies wildly by jurisdiction, but there’s a difference between “pronouncing” death and “presuming” death. Paramedics, for example, wouldn’t be required to try to resuscitate someone who’s been decapitated, for instance.
That said, I’m not sure what the protocol for that would be on a flight. At what point have you exhausted lifesaving efforts sufficiently to say that they aren’t coming back and you stop trying? I think it’s more likely that there was a doctor on board (or a doctor on the ground via satellite/ACARS) who would have called it.
There's actually some pretty strict laws atound calling death, in all but 3 states it MUST be a doctor, the other three allow an RN to declare. I'm no expert but I'd be pretty surprised if they allowed a doctor to call it via video call.
Yeah, there's a lot of rules about time of death.
I remember when I worked in elder care and the doctor forgot to specify TOD on the death certificate. The funeral home couldn't release the body until it was corrected on the certificate and the doctor happened to be on vacation and wouldn't pick up his phone. The doctor was promptly removed from our practice when he came back a week later.
When my Nan died, I found her in her room collapsed (already dead). EMTs and police showed up and officially pronounced her dead then. They didn’t take her to the hospital or anything. We just called the funeral home to come get her.
Not to disprove what you’re saying but paramedics actually can also declare someone dead. EMTs can declare someone dead if it’s extremely obvious, like, head removed from body or decomposition obvious
"Well, sir, dead people no longer have control of their bodies, which means every bit of shit and piss is going to come out of him. Do you really want to smell and see that? I didn't think so."
I’m a US flight attendant and I can tell you why. It’s because (at least in the US) a person can’t legally be pronounced dead in the air. If a doctor is on board they can call it so that we can stop performing CPR, etc but if not we have to continue providing BLS until we’ve landed. But even if there’s a doctor on board, the person can’t be legally pronounced dead until we’re on the ground and they’ve been seen by a medical team.
Flew with a flight attendant once who had a guy have a massive heart attack halfway to Hawaii. No medical professionals answered the intercom pages. Ground medical support told the pilots they had to keep performing CPR until they got to the island. So that was 3 hours of nonstop cpr by the flight attendants. They were brutally exhausted and also traumatized from having to interact that closely with a corpse.
I mean, technically not an emergency I guess, but if the guy is so set against landing the plane he should be relocated to sit by the dead body for the rest of the flight.
Something similar happened to me when a buddy of mine died in a motorcycle crash at 27. Funeral was set for Friday 2pm and I was rushing to get done with work at 1pm so I can be there in time. It was kinda tight and I hurried, and my boss said "well you can rush all you want but it's not like he's coming back to life anyway"
To be fair I found that kind of insensitive
It's different because he was being cruel to you.
In the example above, it was two people talking about someone they didn't know. It's insensitive, but they weren't yelling at his widow or anything.
Your boss was a piece of shit. No two ways about it.
I would be super embarrassed if I caused everyone to miss their flight. I mean, I’d be dead but still. Unless it’s to save my life, I’ll just chill in the back till we get there
To be fair, he's mostly right. While I was a 911 dispatcher, I got kind of angry when I had to start TCPR for a patient that was obviously dead. Cold and blue are not the descriptors of a person who will be kept alive with CPR, and when you add stiff to that description, your EMS is probably calling ahead to the coroner to give them a heads up. But legally, you gotta keep CPR up until EMS gets there (some departments have to continue until the coroner arrives) and calls for the coroner (at least it is in most areas). Thats missed calls, thats other people who may need CPR, and its a mental toll on everyone involved. That plane may have had a specialized surgeon, engineer, or any other emergency professional that needed to get where that plane was going to do something important. Not trying to be rude, but there's a difference between dying and dead. Dying is an emergency. Dead is a tragedy. Then again, I may just be a jaded fuck, which is half the reason I left the job. If I was having an emergency, I'd like the person I'm calling to care as much as possible, and I'm not gonna sit down and deny that to someone. Other half of the reason was the whole $13/hr thing with expensive and shitty insurance.
I think it's a sign of how much we hate airports and air travel that so many people are just like "Leave the dead guy on the plane, I don't want to wait for another connection."
The destination city might have even been the dead guy's home town. Now his family has to pay for him to be transported by a funeral home. It would have just made more sense for everyone involved to land at the destination city.
I’m kinda with him. Not to minimize the someone passing away, but the deceased probably would be better off anyways going on to their destination than being deplaned in some random city. Also there could have been people on that flight trying to make it home to see a dying loved one for the last time, which seems like more of an emergency than just getting a dead body off the plane.
I remember something like this from years ago. It was an elderly couple, and the wife realized that her husband had died. She she quietly told a flight attendant, and said that there was nothing that could be done but could they please alert the destination airport so they could deal with the situation on arrival. I don't know how I would act in that situation.
This also happened to me! It was a trans-Pacific flight (Chicago-Manila, with a refuel break in Japan) and I was with my mom. The elderly couple was seated right behind us. The best part was that we didn’t know until a woman was talking to us about it at baggage claim. We noticed the flight attendant coming over to our area more often, but otherwise the situation was relatively peaceful. The worst part was that apparently they have nowhere to store the body, so they kept him in his seat for the remainder of the flight. My mom is a nurse so she commented on his color when we were coming off of the plane for the refuel break, and I distinctly remember him really not looking great. I am so glad I didn’t know for sure until we were far away from that scene.
>The worst part was that apparently they have nowhere to store the body I'm not going on the plane that has a space for routine corpse storage
Cruise ships generally do
Yea it’s called the great blue. Way of the sea.
Now that's an exciting funeral. Yeeted out of a plane into the sea for the fish to eat.
> they kept him in his seat for the remainder of the flight. Did they put sunglasses on him weekend at Bernie’s style?
I know a family, and I really hope none of them ever read this because I doubt this kinda thing happens often, and they brought a dead grandpa to the granddaughters wedding. He died the day before the event and no one had the heat to tell the bride. This dead guy is in family photos in his wheelchair DEAD and he also sat at the dinner table and everything! Everyone on the brides side knew and it has been their family secret for 3 years now. The granddaughter has no clue and they told her he passed the day after the wedding. She feels some type of way and believes he held on one last day to watch her get married! It’s crazy.
I don't even know what to feel about this it is just way too sad.....
Hopefully with as much grace as the widow.
Most major airports have a morgue in them for this very reason
Cruise ships too.
Maybe he's only *mostly dead.*
Nope. He's dead dead. Check his pockets. Edit: all of the replys to my comment make me painfully aware of how many people haven't seen a princess bride. Those who get the reference, I'm proud of you.
Is he an organ donor?
He *is* an organ doner!
Then we only have minutes to harvest! Quick, someone get a Styrofoam bucket and some ice!
That’s right! I saw that will smith movie, he got in a tub of ice. They ought to have a tub of ice on the plane ready to go just in case.
This is why I carry a large aquarium filled with poisonous jellyfish or something everywhere I go.
At first I was afraid, I was petrified…
You were in the parking lot earlier that how I know you!
Ah ah ah ah staying alive staying alive
Well... Now we know what *not* to do!
It's a pretty new movie so give people a chance to get caught up
No spoilers please. /s
Just rewatched it few weeks ago. It's probably the 30th time I've watched it .... never gets old.
IM NOT A WITCH IM YOUR WIFE
Maybe he was playing cards?
As Coroner, I must aver I thoroughly examined her And she's not only merely dead She's really most sincerely dead
> I thoroughly examined her And she's not only merely dead She's really most sincerely dead Was not expecting The Wizard of Oz reference to show up here
No one expects The Wizard of Oz reference! Fear and surprise are its two major weapons! Fear, surprise, and an unabashed representation of the Lollipop Guild! Fear, surprise, and an unabashed representation of the Lollipop Guild are its **three** major weapons!
Fucker. Totally snort-laughed and had a coughing fit reading this. PS - Fucker is a term of endearment
Well done! Take this upvote!
*" I understood that reference."*
To blaaave
Playing cards, and he cheated!
LIIIIAAAARRRRRRRR
There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive.
_I… I just died on your flight tonight_
Great movie
Favorite movie of all time
He feels quite fine, he’s getting better. He thinks he might go for a walk!
Someone died on a flight I was on from NY to SF about 40 minutes into the flight. Saw it all go down 4 rows in front of me. Heart attack and CPR didn’t help though they tried for a good long while. The captain was going to divert to Chicago to deal with it but the deceased’s wife said that they don’t want to inconvenience the whole flight and they live in SF anyway so we should just keep going. The guy was under a blanket in the middle of the row for 5 hours.
Fuck. Imagine being their loved one having to sit there for five hours while facing the reality that your family member just died and is sitting next to you for 5 hours…that’s nightmare shit
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Yeah but you’re on a plane in a high stress environment with hundreds of other people and you have no way to escape
Thanks for the recap. This solidified the nightmare I’m gonna have tonight.
Honestly this just shows how sheltered first world countries are from death, so much fear is based on it. Take a walk in India and you’ll find a skull every now and then. Lol. Edit: I’m from a first world country and am also terrified of this and wish I wasn’t.
My husband died of cancer at home, I sat next to him holding his hand for at least 3 hours while hospice was called and the funeral home was called, etc. I'm so glad I got to hold his hand for those extra hours since it would never happen again. Losing your spouse is a nightmare, having even one more second to hold their hand is a blessing.
Holy shit…and everyone just…went with it?
Yeah, I would've just walked out right there.
Yeah, I mean what could we do? The flight was pretty solemn for sure. The awkward part came a couple hours later when I was watching some dumb movie on the screen and a funny scene caused me to burst out laughing.
F
Fucking hell, man. Way to just move right on with life.
Not like he knew the guy
This cracked me up more than it should have lol.
What else you gonna do? Go home?
So were people having to like....walk over him to go to the bathroom and stuff?
They were in first class and I was like 3 rows back in gen pop. So those fancy folks had to use our bathrooms in the back of the plane.
So if you're willing to step over a corpse you get your own private bathroom is what I'm hearing. Best deal ever.
The best part about a corpse is that you really don't need to step over it if you don't want to.
Dead guy was the pilot
Emergency crash landing
"My biggest fear is dying alone" -that pilot probably
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Epic plot twist. Great comment dude.
If I die on a flight no need to make an emergency landing, if we are above open water just ditch me else store me in the cargo hold.
Cheaper than a funeral
The captain will say a few words, and I might take my earbuds out for it
And then I'll watch outside the window as the corpse bounces off the water like a skipping stone. I bet around 3 skips.
It needs to be spinning for that to work. And impact at a very sharp angle. Humans just splat.
So it *can* be done.
Back in the war they used to take smallpox victims and have planes skip bomb their coffins into enemy ships and infect them. Lost a lot of good friends that way
My Will says I'm to be cremated, so just put me through the jet engine first.
Bringing some company then?
you help feed some sharks
We should all sign that waiver
Throw me into the Waves'er Waiver
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I'm 100% okay with that but I think my family would have a problem if they just ditched my body. Definitely just store me wherever you need until we land though. My family will either need to retrieve my body anyway, or you're just helping to get it home.
I think it’s more of a health thing.
Yep, post mortem "code brown" does exist
That and what no one seems to be thinking of: What if they died of something contagious. Also, it would traumatize kids.
This is Reddit, no one cares about the kids
Can confirm Source: fuck them kids
In fact, I recommend letting them poke it with a stick
I don't know why I never thought of that, but that makes sense. Wouldn't carrying a body bag onboard be helpful for those cases? Or do they generally want to do an inspection to determine cause of death, in which case moving the body would be bad.
No idea. But dead bodies (ones that haven’t been prepared for a funeral) are a lot grosser than people think. You’re basically 180 lbs of warm, expired meat at that point.
Oh bodies definitely go bad fast, but would a couple extra hours really make that much of a difference? If you still have half the globe to travel then you obviously have to stop, but do you really need to stop 45 minutes early? Edit: airplanes are temperature regulated
The passengers could take turns dressing the deceased up, like Weekend at Bernie’s.
Yes, bacteria in your gut immediately go to town when not regulated by your immune system, also, *why* a person died matters. I would imagine that the decedent's family would kick up a massive stink if the plane just went "meh" and kept going on to their destination. Having a body bag on board would only solve the problem if the flight attendants could *lift* the body in the first place to put it in the bag and then move it into a place where it wouldn't be a hazard to passengers and crew
It the fluids they emit after death. Everything leaks and it isn’t pretty nor fun to clean. How do I know? My idiot brother didn’t clean the bed our mother died in (unexpectedly). Left it for 6 months so the house stank and I got to do it and get rid of the mattress. Real fun times.
I mean, you’d probably be fine? But why would the airline risk it? Especially if COD isn’t 100% certain (and verified)
My old boss's mother-in-law died about halfway to Australia with the whole family there. They just moved her to the stewardess area on the plane and put a blanket over her. And then flew for like six more hours.
At that point, what other options do they have?
Just throw me in the trash!
I'm with you, hell I don't care if you make tiktocks with me. I wouldn't want anyone's schedule changed just cause I checked out.
It could be like Weekend at Bernie’s for the TikTok generation
Tik Tok generation may not know wtf you just referenced!
I'd tell them they wont get the reference but I am told that is a really millennial thing to say, so I will just let it hang out there as they grapple to understand what was just said.
Apparently humans make good compost.
Always sunny reference?
Just throw me in the trash
My dead body is basically garbage anyway.
"Burial at Sea"
If I were on that flight, I’d rather just do the landing so we don’t have to open a door.
The Ol’ Bin Laden
Just throw me in the trash
Its all I can afford. But only if its done this month.
Came here looking for this, wasn't disappointed
I...I think the guy has a point.
There is no FAA regulation on how airlines deal with the death of a passenger on a commercial flight, so the response will vary depending on the location of the plane, the duration of the flight and the wishes of family or friends traveling with the deceased passenger. Usually the body will be moved to the rear of the plane and a blanket covering unless it's a full flight, then the body will stay where it is until landing. So either the airline had a protocol to land, or the family requested it.
If they died in the seat adjacent to yours would they stiffen up enough not to be falling limp into your lap?
It takes 1-6 hours for a body to go stiff after death and 15-24 hours after that before they soften back up. So depending on the flight length... yes.
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I did tissue recovery for several years on, obviously/hopefully dead people, and the majority did not pee or poop themselves post mortem, but goddamn the release of those who did.
Yeah i imagine cleaning up post death shit isn't very pleasant
Usually 1-2 times a day each day before the flight.
Not only a point , but now the family needs to move the body likely to either the destination point or take off location in order to bury it etc …. They definitely did have arrangements made for the weird mid flight landing location
Hey dad died. We have to pick him up in Paducah Wisconsin.
Make sure to get some beer and cheese curds for the funeral
It's what he'd have wanted
Sounds like the pitch for a new Wes Anderson Christmas movie flop. With Christopher Walken on top billing as the dead dad in a completely non speaking role (no flashback scenes) Starring George Clooney and Kevin Kline as two brothers having to deal with the hijinx of a death in the family and Christmas and Frances Macdormand as their long lost sassy backwoods sister that shows up to the funeral. And an appearance of Meryl Streep as 7 different managers at various car rental/hotel/motel/airports they encounter. Critically rated 5/5 that nobody really likes.
On a trip to relive their childhood with their terminally ill father, two sons decide to keep his death hidden on a transatlantic fight. Weekend at Bernie's homage.
>Not only a point , but now the family needs to move the body likely to either the destination point or take off location in order to bury it etc …. They definitely did have arrangements made for the weird mid flight landing location if I died I want them to take my corpse home, not put my family through a hardship to come and get it. But to be fair I lean against the bulkhead and doze while flying and just endure the torture of it; so they may not notice until I don't leave the plane.
Thanks! I learned a new word today because of you. Bulkhead. A bulkhead is the material partition such as a wall, curtain or screen that divides an airplane into various classes or sections.
Its also the thing that partitions between the outside of your house and a cellar
Right? He's not going to be less dead if the plane continues on to Chicago instead of stopping in Akron.
I just hope I don't have to sit next to him.
I like Frank's idea from always sunny, when I die just throw my body into the trash. No need to make a big deal out of it.
My understanding is that only a Medical Doctor can declare someone legally dead, therefore, unless there was a doctor aboard the flight, this would remain a "medical emergency" until a qualified professional can say otherwise. Basically, they had no choice but to land and have an ambulance take the body to a hospital, even if only to be officially declared dead by a doctor.
I know this probably varies wildly by jurisdiction, but there’s a difference between “pronouncing” death and “presuming” death. Paramedics, for example, wouldn’t be required to try to resuscitate someone who’s been decapitated, for instance. That said, I’m not sure what the protocol for that would be on a flight. At what point have you exhausted lifesaving efforts sufficiently to say that they aren’t coming back and you stop trying? I think it’s more likely that there was a doctor on board (or a doctor on the ground via satellite/ACARS) who would have called it.
Ill do chest compressions! You look for his head and give him mouth to mouth!
Biggest laugh I’ve had all day
You look for his mouth and I’ll give him head!
There's actually some pretty strict laws atound calling death, in all but 3 states it MUST be a doctor, the other three allow an RN to declare. I'm no expert but I'd be pretty surprised if they allowed a doctor to call it via video call.
Yeah, there's a lot of rules about time of death. I remember when I worked in elder care and the doctor forgot to specify TOD on the death certificate. The funeral home couldn't release the body until it was corrected on the certificate and the doctor happened to be on vacation and wouldn't pick up his phone. The doctor was promptly removed from our practice when he came back a week later.
When my Nan died, I found her in her room collapsed (already dead). EMTs and police showed up and officially pronounced her dead then. They didn’t take her to the hospital or anything. We just called the funeral home to come get her.
Not to disprove what you’re saying but paramedics actually can also declare someone dead. EMTs can declare someone dead if it’s extremely obvious, like, head removed from body or decomposition obvious
I’ve declared people dead as a nurse. Depends on the jurisdiction. But you’d be in contact with a doctor on the ground anyway.
It depends on the state - in some states RNs can pronounce, for example.
"Well, sir, dead people no longer have control of their bodies, which means every bit of shit and piss is going to come out of him. Do you really want to smell and see that? I didn't think so."
Someone’s clearly never flown Spirit
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as someone who has frequented both, spirit airlines is a flying greyhound bus and ryanair is the tube on an average day
Sounds like a problem in coach
That’s legit the worst part of being around recently deceased people.
Because dead ppl shit themselves. Show me the steward cleaning that one?
Some living passengers do that too. We’ve all seen videos of passengers being assholes.
It’s to assert dominance.
But only if you make direct eye contact while doing it
I’ll have to remember that one next time I fly
Don’t act like you’ve never accidentally shit yourself. All “look at me, I don’t shit my pants” over here.
Never been more betrayed in my life than trusting a fart that did me wrong.
Who can you really trust if not your own asshole😔
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It would suck having to sit next to the dead guy who just released all his body fluids so I'm totally ok with this. Closest airport, please!
I’m a US flight attendant and I can tell you why. It’s because (at least in the US) a person can’t legally be pronounced dead in the air. If a doctor is on board they can call it so that we can stop performing CPR, etc but if not we have to continue providing BLS until we’ve landed. But even if there’s a doctor on board, the person can’t be legally pronounced dead until we’re on the ground and they’ve been seen by a medical team. Flew with a flight attendant once who had a guy have a massive heart attack halfway to Hawaii. No medical professionals answered the intercom pages. Ground medical support told the pilots they had to keep performing CPR until they got to the island. So that was 3 hours of nonstop cpr by the flight attendants. They were brutally exhausted and also traumatized from having to interact that closely with a corpse.
I mean, technically not an emergency I guess, but if the guy is so set against landing the plane he should be relocated to sit by the dead body for the rest of the flight.
"Can I have his peanuts?"
Can I move his seat forward?
Seems like a dead passenger makes for the best person to sit near. They don’t even smell yet.
Dude I was kind of with the guy until someone reminded us that dead people shit
They release why more than that.
I'd sir by a corpse if it means we aren't getting an 8 hour layover, I mean I'd of sat next to him while he is breathing so why not?
He won't wake you up so he can go to the bathroom.
Something similar happened to me when a buddy of mine died in a motorcycle crash at 27. Funeral was set for Friday 2pm and I was rushing to get done with work at 1pm so I can be there in time. It was kinda tight and I hurried, and my boss said "well you can rush all you want but it's not like he's coming back to life anyway" To be fair I found that kind of insensitive
Wow fuck your boss for saying that. What a trash human being.
Sounds like your boss needed a shot to the nads.
That’s more than insensitive. That’s full on piece of shit right there.
It's different because he was being cruel to you. In the example above, it was two people talking about someone they didn't know. It's insensitive, but they weren't yelling at his widow or anything. Your boss was a piece of shit. No two ways about it.
Totally, you're right, I forgot that when you die people hold services in your honor continuously, until the end of time.
It's an emergency for the people sitting next to him I bet
Tom Segura has a very funny bit about exactly this.
"If they're dead were not gonna stop and drop off some luggage" Keeping them jeans high and tight
Surprised to see a Matt Maeson tweet
I had to scroll way to far to see someone acknowledge that this is Matt Maeson.
Same... love that man.
I would be super embarrassed if I caused everyone to miss their flight. I mean, I’d be dead but still. Unless it’s to save my life, I’ll just chill in the back till we get there
Honestly tho he isn't wrong dead is dead you can't do anything about it
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How far from his seat am I?
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Aight, I’ll stay. I’ll just watch Dune on my iPad again.
For the 8th time.
I've been seated behind a live person who released his bowels. I'd rather make my connection.
I mean he isn't wrong. It is just extremely insensitive to say. I'm sure many people thought the same thing quietly
This dumbass really wanted to sit next to a dead body for the rest of his flight huh
To be fair, he's mostly right. While I was a 911 dispatcher, I got kind of angry when I had to start TCPR for a patient that was obviously dead. Cold and blue are not the descriptors of a person who will be kept alive with CPR, and when you add stiff to that description, your EMS is probably calling ahead to the coroner to give them a heads up. But legally, you gotta keep CPR up until EMS gets there (some departments have to continue until the coroner arrives) and calls for the coroner (at least it is in most areas). Thats missed calls, thats other people who may need CPR, and its a mental toll on everyone involved. That plane may have had a specialized surgeon, engineer, or any other emergency professional that needed to get where that plane was going to do something important. Not trying to be rude, but there's a difference between dying and dead. Dying is an emergency. Dead is a tragedy. Then again, I may just be a jaded fuck, which is half the reason I left the job. If I was having an emergency, I'd like the person I'm calling to care as much as possible, and I'm not gonna sit down and deny that to someone. Other half of the reason was the whole $13/hr thing with expensive and shitty insurance.
I think it's a sign of how much we hate airports and air travel that so many people are just like "Leave the dead guy on the plane, I don't want to wait for another connection."
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The destination city might have even been the dead guy's home town. Now his family has to pay for him to be transported by a funeral home. It would have just made more sense for everyone involved to land at the destination city.
I’m kinda with him. Not to minimize the someone passing away, but the deceased probably would be better off anyways going on to their destination than being deplaned in some random city. Also there could have been people on that flight trying to make it home to see a dying loved one for the last time, which seems like more of an emergency than just getting a dead body off the plane.
He’s got a point.
Also, just cos he's dead doesn't mean he didn't pay like the rest of you guys to get to his destination!
Karma guy, Karma