[Rhodes22-list] Life Imitates Art (Was this the Griswold family?)

[Brad Haslett]

Herb,

Early in my career I would fly anything, anywhere, for peanuts!  No one
wanted to fly dead bodies because coffins don't fit in little airplanes -
you strap the dead guy/gal to a cot and press on.  They make strange noises
from the pressure changes and move as well.  I found wearing a headset and
not looking back the perfect solution.  Fast forward to 1979, I was managing
a small FBO in Little Rock and a dude flies in from Houston with a stiff and
wants to know where he can unload him.  I explain he has to wait for the
funeral home and he starts unloading by himself.  I helped move the body to
a storage hangar and when the funeral home shows,  the hearse has the family
onboard.  I pull the driver off to the side and explain the situation while
one of my employees keeps the family occupied.  We got the stiff loaded
without the family knowing he'd been on a hangar floor for the last hour.

Brad


On Jan 16, 2008 11:29 AM, Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com> wrote:

> True story here, just about first-hand.
>
> My mother's younger brother was a "carny" worker. My uncle was really
> one of those "marginal" type folks we hear about from time to time.  He
> developed TB and eventually died from it. When he was hospitalized, he
> was put in a ward somewhere near Galveston, TX. The family funeral plots
> are in Waco. He had no money, no insurance, but he did have the family
> funeral plot that had been purchased for him. My mother drove our family
> van (I was mostly grown and in college by this time) to pick up the body
> and transport it to Waco.
>
> I was flabbergasted!! I was sure that there were some laws being broken
> somewhere, somehow; but couldn't find any, and she (and my sister) were
> able (and allowed) to go pick him up, and transport him to Waco.
>
>
> Brad Haslett wrote:
> > *
> >
> http://www.nwcn.com/statenews/oregon/stories/NW_011408ORN_grandmother_roadtrip_LJ.215623a7.html#
> > **Family continues Oregon-bound roadtrip with dead grandma in RV *
> *02:32 PM
> > PST on Monday, January 14, 2008* *By JENNIFER IVESON / KGW*
> >
> > HILLSBORO, Ore. - A bizarre investigation is underway in Hillsboro,
> after
> > police said they were contacted by a family whose grandmother died
> during a
> > recent road trip, yet they decided to keep driving with the body in
> thier RV
> > until they reached Oregon.
> >
> >  Family drives over 1,000 miles to Oregon with dead grandma in RV.
> >
> > Their trip began in California and they first headed to Arkansas. It was
> > meant to be a special trip for the 79-year-old woman to see loved ones
> > before she died. She was suffering from renal failure but was expected
> to
> > live long enough to complete the trip.
> >
> >  After Arkansas, the family began driving the RV toward Oregon but their
> > grandmother died in Wyoming.
> >
> >  However when she died, the family decided to keep driving and
> transported
> > the body more than 1,000 more miles, until they reached Hillsboro.
> >
> >  "They said a Dr. had told them, based on her condition that if she did
> die,
> > they should continue to drive to their destination," said Lt. Michael
> > Rouches with the Hillsboro Police Department. "She had a personal
> physician
> > here in Hillsboro and the idea was that the physician would have her
> medical
> > records and information about her condition."
> >
> >  Police were investigating but said it did not appear that anyone
> committed
> > a crime. One of the family members told KGW that the grandma had told
> the
> > family it was her wish to be in Oregon for her final days.
> >
> >  Even so, the Office of the Medical Examiner is helping with the
> > investigation. Lt. Rouches said, "Their intentions in starting this
> thing
> > were good."
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