Apparently, someone died on our cruise...

[Tom]

I assume these cruise deaths are pure coincidence, and that all these people who die on ships had their time coming....and that just happens to be where they were when their clock ran out. Because cruising is pretty much the opposite of stressful. Is there any correlation between onboard deaths and anything that had to do with the circumstances?

 

[sweetpee_1993]

I assume these cruise deaths are pure coincidence, and that all these people who die on ships had their time coming....and that just happens to be where they were when their clock ran out. Because cruising is pretty much the opposite of stressful. Is there any correlation between onboard deaths and anything that had to do with the circumstances?

Mostly I think its coincidence. I mean, of the millions of people who cruise across all lines every year its bound to naturally occur. I have heard of terminally ill or other people ready for the end go on cruises for the purpose of their passing. That's a choice those people make & could just as easily choose WDW, the mountains, etc.

I do think cruising could potentially have an adverse role perhaps for people with previously undiagnosed conditions. Every time we cruise both Tracey and I swell up especially in our feet. It's really crazy. Apparently it's not that unusual as it's been discussed at length on other cruise specific forums. I would think someone with an undiagnosed health issue paired with whatever excesses that person partakes of (food, drink, etc) and any added stress from swelling, it could be a recipe for disaster.

 

[Cesar R M]

I assume these cruise deaths are pure coincidence, and that all these people who die on ships had their time coming....and that just happens to be where they were when their clock ran out. Because cruising is pretty much the opposite of stressful. Is there any correlation between onboard deaths and anything that had to do with the circumstances?

well, sometimes too much excitement can put its weight on the heart and mind.
There is "too much fun" or "too much exercise" for many people who have conditions.

 

[jl2081]

We were on the this cruise as well, but from what I was hearing it was a 13 year old child that passed. Still can't figure out why they held up a Childrens Hospital helicopter out of Miami for about 6 hours though when the person had already passed. My buddy who was on the cruise with us is a paramedic and said that the helicopter would never transport a dead body so that being said the body would be coming back on board to finish the cruise and clear customs I assume. I did witness the women who was by the helicopter for a long time come back on to the ship around 4pm and to my understanding the helicopter finally left around 6:30. The only thing I can figure was they were using the helicopter to "hide" the body from the rest of the guest till everybody was back aboard and most sitting down to the 5:45 dinner and then they must have brought the body aboard, other wise if they were going to take the body away they would have done it several hours prior and not kept the helicopter there so long.

 

[livieloo]

We were on the this cruise as well, but from what I was hearing it was a 13 year old child that passed. Still can't figure out why they held up a Childrens Hospital helicopter out of Miami for about 6 hours though when the person had already passed. My buddy who was on the cruise with us is a paramedic and said that the helicopter would never transport a dead body so that being said the body would be coming back on board to finish the cruise and clear customs I assume. I did witness the women who was by the helicopter for a long time come back on to the ship around 4pm and to my understanding the helicopter finally left around 6:30. The only thing I can figure was they were using the helicopter to "hide" the body from the rest of the guest till everybody was back aboard and most sitting down to the 5:45 dinner and then they must have brought the body aboard, other wise if they were going to take the body away they would have done it several hours prior and not kept the helicopter there so long.

It was not a child, it was an older man. Our room was right in front of the helipad. The man passed on the helipad so they could not bring him back on board and they could not take off. The bahamian M.E. Came to take care of it. They took the body on to a smaller boat that came from Nassau. The ship stayed until the body was moved on to a cart and driven to the other side of the ship where the smaller boat waited. It was a man in his late 50s and had a heart attack. It was VERY sad to watch the family be soooo upset!

 

[Tonka's Skipper]

Prayers to the family!

AKK

 

[Master Yoda]

While this does not happen on every cruise, it is not all that uncommon of a thing. With the number of people traveling on cruise ships, deaths from even natural causes are simply bound to happen. Add to that all of the activities that people are doing that they do not normally do and I am surprised that they do not happen more often.

We had a similar occurrence on out first Disney cruise, which was our first cruise ever. Like with the OP, we had a helicopter show up and we witnessed them taking a patient to the helicopter, getting about half way there, the patient apparently crashed and they went back to the ship and then loaded them onto the helicopter about 20 minutes later.

The ship left very late and with no fanfare.

The rumors were similar...older person with hear trouble.