Insider Stories: Flight Attendants’ Eye-Opening Air Travel Facts

#28: Dying to Get Off the Plane

Something that most of us don’t like to think about but that airlines (and cruise ships, too) have to think about is what you’re going to do if someone dies while they’re on your flight (or cruise). I mean, you’re in the middle of the air (or the ocean); it’s not easy to just stop by somewhere and drop the body off.

Cruise ships often have morgues, or at least places to store bodies, just in case of events like this (and because not to be morbid, but cruises are popular with older people, and older people die more often). But what do you do on a plane? Apparently, you just leave the body where it is and deal with it later.