Originally Posted by
artemis
If you take a look at her picture (posted earlier in this thread), you'll see she couldn't possibly have fit into a first-class seat. She apparently gained more than 60 pounds of weight (mostly edema fluid due to her bad kidney function) during her month-long stay in Hungary, and weighed more than 500 lbs at he time she was trying to return home; apparently she barely fit through the main cabin door, and was too big to be moved down the aisle. She needed to be on a cargo plane or a dedicated air ambulance, not a commercial passenger flight.
Everyone on this thread has agreed that the couple should have sought out medical care in Europe until a way could be worked out to return the lady home to NYC, and that the airline isn't at fault. But the husband is grieving, and anger is often part of the grief process. So I'm not surprised he's made the airline a scapegoat for his wife's death, and that he's suing. I'd be surprised if the suit isn't tossed out fairly quickly.
Well, common sense tells you that the suit should be thrown out but, unfortunately, common sense is not so common.
And, common sense seems to have been lacking in the decisions this unfortunate woman and her husband made.
I feel very sorry for the husband. Of course he's grieving, and he's probably wondering if things might have been different if they had made different decisions. As you said, anger is part of the grieving process, which usually goes through the stages of Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and, finally, Acceptance.