Coming Home From Their Holiday In A Coffin.
By Jabo
@jaboUK (64354)
United Kingdom
December 8, 2016 2:18pm CST
I've recently returned from Spain, and as my husband isn't very mobile we book assistance at the airport. This means that we have to remain on the plane (along with other disabled people), until everybody else has disembarked.
While waiting for the special vehicle that the assistance team use, we noticed not one, but two coffins being unloaded from the plane. It gave me quite a turn to see them, and to realise that these people's holidays had ended so tragically.
I only hope that they had died at the end of their trip and had at least had an enjoyable time beforehand. It would be even more sad if they had died at the start of their vacation.
The assistance team told us that this wasn't an unusual occurrence, though they didn't usually have two at the same time. The thing is that a lot of people travelling to Spain from England at this time of year are elderly with health problems, so I suppose it is bound to happen.
I couldn't help but wonder how their spouse/partner must feel, knowing that their loved one was travelling home in the hold of the aircraft in a coffin, instead of sitting beside them on the plane. It's too awful to contemplate, and my heart goes out to them.
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@dragon54u (31634)
• United States
9 Dec 16
It's sad for the surviving loved ones that it happened around the holy days but you should be happy for those who have passed on. No more pain, no more heartache, no more physical traumas or sickness. They are in a place of love, I believe, with others who have moved on. I am always happy for those who die but sad for the ones they've left behind.
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@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
10 Dec 16
@dragon54u @adynsmommy Yes, it's much worse for those left behind.
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@adynsmommy (86)
• Spring Hill, Florida
10 Dec 16
It took me along time to get to that point of being happy they weren't suffering. I was always just so devastated that I lost them
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Surely it happens, but I wouldn't ever want that to happen 
. That is definitely not the way I would want to come home from a trip either - as you said, too awful to contemplate 
@crossbones27 (49464)
• Mojave, California
8 Dec 16
WOW, things you never hear about. I always like people who share this stuff with us because how would we we know otherwise This could save someones life one day because it puts it in their head.
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@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
8 Dec 16
@crossbones27 It's one of those things that you think will never happen to you, and fervently hope that it won't.
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@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
8 Dec 16
@LisaSteinmetz Yes, if this happened to your own spouse/friend it really would make you think about going away again.
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@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
8 Dec 16
@teresatrotter It certainly does. An awful thing to happen.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
11 Dec 16
That is rather sad isn't it but if you have to go, going on vacation isn't a bad way to do it!!
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@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
14 Dec 16
@BelleStarr I'm sorry to hear that.
(Thank you for your Xmas card Isabelle, it arrived today. I don't send cards but donate the money I would have spent to the Salvation Army. I wish you and yours a happy Xmas).
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@VivaLaDani13 (60794)
• Perth, Australia
21 Mar 17
@jaboUK That is just beyond sad! *Touch wood* to never experience anything similar like that!
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@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
21 Mar 17
@VivaLaDani13 Yes, it must be an awful thing to experience.
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@Daljinder (23236)
• Bangalore, India
14 Jan 17
I don;t have that experience but We did have my uncle (who was in his early 40's at that time) returning home from Kuwait. He wasn't well and was treated for major heart attack. We weren't sure whether he would make the trip back home safe or in a coffin. *shudder* He made it home was promptly headed to hospital. Not a whole month has passed that he passed away after another heart attack.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
12 Dec 16
This is sad. Like you I hope the family had some good holiday time.
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
10 Dec 16
thats what concerns me if i travel by plane soon. i may not survive the move coming up
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
10 Dec 16
@jaboUK me too
depends on the oxygen thing again
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@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
10 Dec 16
@bunnybon7 Oh my goodness Bonnie, I hope your fears are unfounded!
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
9 Dec 16
@jaboUK - Ms Janet - I had already prepared a wonderful comment to place here, but I messed up somehow, and that comment has flown off to who-knows-where. This, of course, portends the need for me to wake up and watch out today. It is likely to to be "one of those days..."
Anyway, to shorten the message from earlier penning, I wanted you to understand that you need not feel sorry about one of those two coffins that were unloaded from your passenger airport upon your arrival back in England. One of them contained the loot I liberated from the Spanish National Bank.
Keep this information to yourself, OK? -Gus-
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@MarymargII (12422)
• Toronto, Ontario
14 Dec 16
I have thought of this before and realize that it does happen but is too sad and how awful for the surviving ones, as you say.
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@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
14 Dec 16
@MarymargII It must be really devastating, and I suppose that it isn't all that uncommon.
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@MarymargII (12422)
• Toronto, Ontario
16 Dec 16
@jaboUK Let's just say I don't want to think about it next time I go on a holiday- a little scary!
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