A cruise line saved the body of a guest who passed away onboard in a beverages cooler for numerous days, triggering the guy’s body to turn green and break down, the guy’s widow declared in a federal claim submitted in Florida recently.
The male, Robert Jones, passed away of a cardiovascular disease on 15 August in 2015 while onboard the Celebrity Equinox throughout a Caribbean cruise. Ship team members apparently informed his widow, Marilyn Jones, that she might either take the body on coast in San Juan, Puerto Rico, or that they might keep it in the working onboard morgue up until they went back to Florida. Staffers informed her that the body had just a 50% possibility of going through an autopsy in San Juan which she would need to stay there alone up until the body was autopsied and embalmed, Jones stated in the grievance. She selected to keep the body on the ship.
When the vessel returned to Fort Lauderdale on 21 August, a constable’s workplace deputy and funeral house staff member discovered that Robert Jones’s body had actually been put in a bag on a pallet on the flooring of a beverages cooler, according to the suit. The space was not cold adequate to avoid the body from disintegrating, and funeral personnel were supposedly unable to restore the body enough for an open coffin funeral service. The ship’s needed working morgue was not working at the time, the suit states.
Marilyn Jones, her children, and 3 grandchildren are taking legal action against Celebrity Cruises for $1m in damages.
Celeb Cruises decreased to discuss the case,