Final August, Marilyn Jones and her husband, Robert, embarked upon an eight-day Caribbean cruise aboard the Celeb Equinox, departing from Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Nevertheless, Robert Jones, 79, died of a coronary heart assault simply two days into the journey.
In line with a federal lawsuit filed in opposition to the cruise line by Ms. Jones this week, Celeb Cruises offered her with two choices: to disembark the ship together with her husband’s physique in San Juan, P.R., or to conform to have the physique saved within the ship’s morgue till it returned to Florida six days later.
Ms. Jones opted to stay on board. Nevertheless, upon returning to Fort Lauderdale, a funeral house employee and a Broward County sheriff’s deputy found that the physique had been moved from the morgue to an insufficiently cooled area on a distinct flooring. Consequently, the physique had “horrifically decomposed” and was unsuitable for an open casket at Robert Jones’s wake and funeral.
Originally posted 2023-04-22 13:25:08.