A Florida woman is seeking $1 million in a federal lawsuit, alleging that after her husband died aboard a cruise ship in the Caribbean, the luxury liner’s staff failed to properly preserve the body, robbing his loved ones of an open-casket funeral.
The Celebrity Equinox cruise ship docked at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on June 26, 2021.Antonio Planas
Marilyn Jones was listed as a plaintiff, as were her two daughters, an adult granddaughter and two minor grandchildren. The defendant in the lawsuit is Celebrity Cruises Inc., which owns and operates the Celebrity Equinox.After two days on the cruise, the vacation turned somber whenFollowing her husband’s death, the lawsuit said, Marilyn Jones was told she had the option of preserving her husband’s body in the cruise ship’s morgue for the next six days until the boat docked in Fort Lauderdale.
She was told there would be a “50/50 chance that a medical examiner in San Juan would ‘take possession’ of her husband’s body and perform an autopsy. This was especially distressing to Ms. Jones, who is elderly and was traveling alone with her husband,” the suit said.
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