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Death at MK???
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KevinYee
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I watched much of it happen. The firefighter who administered the AED (onstage) was part of my party visiting that day, so yeah, we know there was no pulse and essentially no hope as they took the person backstage.
It was in Town Square on a sidewalk, and appeared to be a collapse for medical reasons. I'm not a medical doctor, but I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be caused by a sudden health problem (stroke, heart attack, aneurism, embolism, etc).
It was in Town Square on a sidewalk, and appeared to be a collapse for medical reasons. I'm not a medical doctor, but I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be caused by a sudden health problem (stroke, heart attack, aneurism, embolism, etc).
PhilharMagician
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Wow!
Thanks for the info Kevin.
Thanks for the info Kevin.
goofntink
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Kevin is correct, the guest did unfortunately pass,was pronounced at the hospital. This is not meant to be offensive to the family,but to comment about the news media locally and abroad, if it doesn't happen on a ride they won't pay attention to it. Trust me they monitor the radio channels on property,and know when things happen as soon as they happen.
Disneydreamer23
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Poor guys family :-(
Prayers for his family and friends...
mitchk
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STGRhost
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This happens much more frequently than most guests realize (or probably want to think about). WDW is pretty much it's own city, with a large, constantly changing population. Death is a part of life. As long as it is due to natural causes or "normal" accident it is usually not even mentioned in the news (and shouldn't be). It could be looked at as a credit to Disney that they are able to maintain the magic, at least for most of their guests, in spite of all this.
My thoughts go out to this man's family, though, and the people who were involved in the rescue attempt or witnessed it. Somehow, being on vacation when it happens (I'm assuming this is the case) makes it worse in my mind.
My thoughts go out to this man's family, though, and the people who were involved in the rescue attempt or witnessed it. Somehow, being on vacation when it happens (I'm assuming this is the case) makes it worse in my mind.
unkadug
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a lil too early. Very sad
Not really. On any given day WDW's population surpasses that of many towns across America where people die every day. While it is sad that he died at Disney, it's just a fact of life that statistically this is going to happen.
Thurp
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I didn't really want to reply because it'd just bump this up, but with all due respect, I disagree with what you are trying to say.
This woman's death is tragic. She was spending the day at the MK with her family and something happened and she died. None of this had anything to do with Disney's operations. People die for unknown reasons every day. This just happened to be in a theme park.
If the Sentinel was to pick this up, then people would accuse them of being sectionalists. I hope that no one picks this story up.
Like someone else said, people die at WDW more often than some would think and most of you don't hear about it. I was hoping this would be one of those cases but just as I was going to bed last night, I noticed someone had posted about it and it saddened me.
It has nothing to do with Disney, just the fact that they own the property where it happened. Discussing these deaths is completely unnecessary. Couldn't we just let this go? Let the family mourn. She could have died while having breakfast at Denny's in the morning and none of us would have known about it.
draybook
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What's wrong with us knowing about this? Do you really think that the family is going to find this site and this thread and suffer some kind of shock?
JustInTime
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In theory I can agree with you. But the people here are obsessed with Disney. And humans as a whole are curious about death. So this thread, along with many more will live on.
sweetpee_1993
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Not to be disrespectful or irreverent in any way, but I was just thinking that if I someday fall over dead from a heart attack or something I hope that it's at WDW where, as a good little Disney-Freak, I'm obviously going out in a state of utter bliss. I hate that any family out there has negative memories tied to WDW, tho. That's the down side.
Billy6
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I echo the above statement, as it happens more often than we realize. And it happened to my family last year in June. We were staying at Kidani Village. On the Wednesday night that the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup, my dad was rushed to the emergency room as he was having chest pains. It wasn't until we got to Dr Phillips hospital, we found out he had a heart attack in the ambulance and coded(died), but was resusitated by the EMT's. Our vacation turned into a nightmare.
He is doing great now and almost back to 100%. Disney and the KV CM's and Managers were awesome to our family during this time and will be forever greatful.
As was said, it happens as it is a part of life. My thoughts to the family for their loss. It could have easily been us last year, and I thank God every chance I get.
STGRhost
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Wow, Billy6, that's quite a story. How scary. I'm so glad it worked out for your family!
I have similar stories, but they are not close family/friends. I also have knowledge of quite a few others just from having worked at the parks. It happens. It's awful, and I don't ever WANT it to happen, but it happens.
I think most of the people in this thread are making the same point you are. It won't be picked up by any real media outlet because it is really not news.
It is interesting to us on this board for probably a few reasons. For one thing, we want to know EVERYTHING going on in the parks, including accidents, injuries, and death. Also, it's human nature to have an interest in, and even a morbid curiosity towards death any time it happens. And those who actually witnessed or have first hand knowledge of the situation probably want to talk about it as a way of dealing with it. All normal responses to something like this. If this HAD happened at Denney's, the people who witnessed it or heard about it later might have found it interesting and discussed it, too.
I don't think any one here has said anything offensive. And no one is blaming Disney for anything. I guess it's one of those "If you don't want to think about it or discuss it, don't read it" topics? Because I don't think being curious is disrespectful.
I have similar stories, but they are not close family/friends. I also have knowledge of quite a few others just from having worked at the parks. It happens. It's awful, and I don't ever WANT it to happen, but it happens.
I think most of the people in this thread are making the same point you are. It won't be picked up by any real media outlet because it is really not news.
It is interesting to us on this board for probably a few reasons. For one thing, we want to know EVERYTHING going on in the parks, including accidents, injuries, and death. Also, it's human nature to have an interest in, and even a morbid curiosity towards death any time it happens. And those who actually witnessed or have first hand knowledge of the situation probably want to talk about it as a way of dealing with it. All normal responses to something like this. If this HAD happened at Denney's, the people who witnessed it or heard about it later might have found it interesting and discussed it, too.
I don't think any one here has said anything offensive. And no one is blaming Disney for anything. I guess it's one of those "If you don't want to think about it or discuss it, don't read it" topics? Because I don't think being curious is disrespectful.
wayneway
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Yes, it's sad but it does happen. I saw paramedics rushing a man from town square on a gurney with a paramedic on top of him giving CPR while moving to a backstage area. I think the odds of most guest seeing these situations are low because they try to get medical emergencies away from on-stage areas as quickly as possible.
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