Originally Posted by Irishboy
Just a quick question for you guys. I've read on several threads that if somebody dies during a flight they are left in their seat and made to look as if they are asleep (pull blanket up to face, etc). But when a person dies all their sphincter muscles relax and waste from their bodies will leak out. Does this cause much of a problem, especially on a long haul flight? Surely the surrounding passengers will notice an unpleasent smell after a while.
I was dealing with a sudden death last week. Temperature was pretty ambient, not too warm, within 2 hours of his death he was going into 1st stage rigor mortis, colour was gone from him... insides started leaking.. by the time he was moved to the mortuary 4 hours later, he was belching wind and starting to smell quite badly. Having seen quite a few like that, I wouldn't want them pretending to sleep next to me for 8 hours!
