What do you keep in your freezer?
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Eew if its true
A widow and her family are suing Celebrity Cruises for allegedly mishandling her husband’s body after he died while they were on a ship last year, saying it was left to decompose and they suffered extreme emotional trauma.
After Marilyn Jones’ husband of 55 years, Robert Jones, died of a heart attack on August 15 on board the Celebrity Equinox, his body was stored for nearly a week inside a walk-in cooler normally used for beverages instead of a properly chilled morgue as she was promised, according to the federal lawsuit filed in Florida.
That left the body bloated and green, and the family was unable to have an open-coffin funeral “which was a long-standing family custom and was what his family had desired,” the lawsuit says. Marilyn Jones, her two daughters and three grandchildren are seeking US$1 million in damages.
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3218038/widow-sues-celebrity-cruises-us1-million-letting-dead-husbands-body-decompose-beverage-cooler -
Partial bullshit.
Morgues are kept at 2-4 degrees centigrade (36-39F). To be honest, I'd let mine run at blood bank temps or 1-6 C, because of location and the temporary nature of storage.
FDA mandates that a walk-in cooler temp shall not exceed 41 F, but the common temp is 35-38 F.
So, unless they placed the body in the opening of the walk-in cooler or did not maintain temps, my best guess is that the body had not decomposed to the level specified in the lawsuit.
Another factor to consider is the temp of the body as it was being unloaded, transferred and placed at the funeral home. Also, we don't know how long the person had been dead when their body was discovered.
And...The family got a body. If I'd been the Captain, I would have committed the remains to the briny deep. With a suitable service, of course.
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Partial bullshit.
Morgues are kept at 2-4 degrees centigrade (36-39F). To be honest, I'd let mine run at blood bank temps or 1-6 C, because of location and the temporary nature of storage.
FDA mandates that a walk-in cooler temp shall not exceed 41 F, but the common temp is 35-38 F.
So, unless they placed the body in the opening of the walk-in cooler or did not maintain temps, my best guess is that the body had not decomposed to the level specified in the lawsuit.
Another factor to consider is the temp of the body as it was being unloaded, transferred and placed at the funeral home. Also, we don't know how long the person had been dead when their body was discovered.
And...The family got a body. If I'd been the Captain, I would have committed the remains to the briny deep. With a suitable service, of course.
@Jolly said in What do you keep in your freezer?:
f I'd been the Captain, I would have committed the remains to the briny deep. With a suitable service, of course.
That's what I would have wanted.
I don't understand why the body was on board for a week. They stop in ports most every day. Those port cities have morgues.
OK, I read the article. She elected to keep the body on the ship. For a week. Wouldn't want to interrupt a perfectly good cruise.
