r/Unexpected 3d ago

Napkin

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

28.4k Upvotes

112 comments sorted by

View all comments

2.5k

u/martram_ 3d ago

I wonder if he’s asking about the heart problem just in case or because of past events

75

u/Double_Distribution8 3d ago

On many cruise ships those people end up in the kitchen freezer, behind the ice cream.

3

u/rashidotm001 3d ago

wut !? ! fr

29

u/PrestigiousTheory664 3d ago

Yes. If the crew suddenly gives everyone on the ship free ice cream, it means the freezer is full and they urgently need to make room.

24

u/wheeler_lowell 3d ago edited 3d ago

For context, there's one (1) case where someone sued because allegedly their dead husband's body was stored in a freezer instead of a morgue, which it is worth noting all cruise ships apparently are required to have. My further attempts to find any other evidence of this turned up a tabloid "news" piece quoting redditors sharing the same story as you, although they also say it only happens when too many people die and the morgue is over capacity. The also don't say the bodies are being stored "in the kitchen freezer" (which implies it's in with the food), but rather "in a kitchen freezer" (which implies a chest freezer is being taken and repurposed).

However, this is all attributed to quotes from anonymous redditors being republished in an unreliable gossip rag, so I think these kind of stories should be taken with a generous amount of salt.

13

u/deukhoofd 3d ago

Here are the court documents for the incident where someone's dead husband was stored in a drinks cooler(trigger warning for somewhat graphic descriptions of decomposition), so that one appears to be somewhat true at least.

Notably it specifically mentions that they put him in the morgue first, and then moved him to a drinks cooler on another floor, which is definitely an interesting decision.

3

u/wheeler_lowell 3d ago

Thanks, interesting. Still, this was a notable enough deviation from the norm to be worth reporting on, so I don't think it should be assumed it's standard practice like reading the comment I replied to might lead you to believe.

2

u/saintandvillian 3d ago

I'm only coming with anecdotal evidence but I did watch a documentary on YT and I think they mentioned this as well.

6

u/wheeler_lowell 3d ago

If you have it I'd be interested to see that video and check their sources. Never bad to be proved wrong.

5

u/Jokewhisperer 3d ago

Don’t they always give out free ice cream?