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01 Jun 15
16:36
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So why does it cost £17,500 to bring a dead body home from Jamaica.
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Prat.
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Whos`s died?
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Fiona Reid.
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my wife went on holiday there
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Is she still alive?
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Fiona is quite big though.
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Is she?
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Is she a news reader?
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It costs 17,500 pounds because people feel are prepared and feel compelled to pay that..under the circumstances.
Bears no relation to the actual cost to the airline, emotional blackmail, don`t pay it. |
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Wouldn't like to be in the adjoining seat!
Seriously though, wouldn't it just be put in a refrigerated box and stuck in the hold? I don't understand that cost either. People have tried to send themselves as parcels to save money? |
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There should be no charge for such an eventuality, let the dead bury the dead.
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They should have her cremated in Jamaica and then bring her home for free.
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I suppose they would put a coffin on the back seats, so would take at least 4 seats hence part of the cost, maybe even more seats as thinking about it you`d have to have a curtain around it too.
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and some febreeze?
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Shane
Why put a coffin in the cabin and have nobody sit near it. Not going to freeze to death in the cargo hold is she? Thieving bastards, the airlines. |
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Costs 3 quid to go from London to Edinburgh by Megabus but you'd hardly expect to send a dead body for less than a few ton would you?
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^^^ Roof rack.
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Makes me wonder how much it was to fly my Uncle back to Barbados
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^^^ Roof rack.
Would have to sign a waiver not to claim compo when it slides off the front at a zebra crossing though. Imagine the clean up crew and that's without 3rd world diseases. |
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No budding newshound, troll or w'nker care to explain why it costs £17,500?
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Nobody?
Where are all the chit chat smart arses? |
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Why not post where it's says it costs that much.
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Because I don't know.
It was on BBC television news pages at the weekend. My telly is downstairs, my PC is upstairs. Instead of using note paper for loads of news items, I take a photo of the news on the screen. But I only did 1 page, not both. Her name was Fiona Reid, she was 32, killed in a car crash, had 2 children and iirc, came from the Birmingham area. |
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Everybody bangs up the price when a stiff is involved.
They know people are at their most vulnerable to be overcharged when there is grief about. |
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What if it was the case of a disliked family member?
And the family said 'Bollocks, you keep it.' Would they do so, or drop the price to a realistic level. |
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So it's most likely the cost of repatriation of a dead body rather than the cost of flying her home?
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Call it what you like, but I don't see why it should be 8 times the normal air fare.
I read somewhere that lots of elderly Brits die abroad every year, and 9 out of 10 insurance claims for this are rejected. It's in the 'small print', as they say. |
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I'm not calling it anything. Repatriation of a dead body involves more than just a plane ticket. Do you think the ambulance just drops the body off at the airport and its just a case of the airline saying that costs £17,000 and a baggage handler just flings the body on a plane?
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Documentation, however much it takes, can't reasonably cost £15k, plus £2k for a flight in the cargo hold.
It's extortionate. For example, how much did it cost to repatriate dead soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan? |
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Hospital costs,coroner costs, funeral director costs, death certificate, embalming certificate, hermetically sealed zinc lined coffin, export certificate, coffin sealing certificate, customs declaration, transport from hospital/morgue to funeral director, transport from funeral director to airport, transport from airport to Uk funeral director.
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Couldn't you have posted that at 10:49?
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Hospital morgue straight to the airport cuts out one of the 'middle men'.
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I wonder what a cremation costs in Jamaica?
Then post it home. |
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No. Because I didn't seriously think that you would think that repatriation of a dead body was a simple case of tossing it in a cargo hold when getting on the plane. I presumed you may have actually been referring to a case where an airline solely charged £17,000.
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Hmmm. It could get darned complicated if they died en route! I suppose you'd get a £1000 rebate for half a flight whilst alive and an £8000 surcharge for half a flight whilst dead.
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Hospital morgue straight to the airport cuts out one of the 'middle men'.
Are you being serious? |
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Anyway, it won't happen to me. I'm going straight to Heaven. My mum told me.
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Hospital morgue straight to the airport cuts out one of the 'middle men'.
Shrewd_dude Are you being serious? In these times of austerity, one should do one's utmost to save money. Flash black limousine with nobody there to see it versus Roof rack for a local taxi driver |
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Let's just pretend no middle man was required to get a body from a morgue to an airport and pretend an airport would allow a corpse in and an airline would accept a decomposing corpse on to one one of their flights what would be the point in transporting a half mangled corpse back to the uk which is rotten and honking by the time it got back?
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