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Old Aug 25, 2017, 4:43 pm
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Badenoch
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Originally Posted by Can I help you
No code that I know of at BA, we would try and move the body to somewhere private but if that isn't possible we would leave it in the passengers seat, we wouldn't cover the body but we would close their eyes.
Originally Posted by ACabinCrewMember
Once the passenger does pass away it would be somewhere private if possible, if not, we'd but them back in their seat and blanket up to the shoulders.
If you can't find a private place what, if anything, is done for the other passengers in the row? Are they just expected to sit there beside a dead body?

What if his seat is the aisle and either the middle or the window use the lav? Do they just hop over the guy?

Will the FA continue meal/beverage service to that row even if it means reaching over the corpse?

What about the odour created if the deceased has defecated which does sometimes happen upon death? The prospect of sitting pressed up against a corpse who has purged his bowels a final time is hardly appealing.
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