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30 Morbid Minutes

Death on Cruise Ships

30 Morbid Minutes

30 Morbid Minutes

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.8731 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

An estimated 200 people die every year while taking a cruise. As a result, ships and their crews have developed intricate systems, code words, and protocol in the event a passenger dies on board. Still, dire complications can arise out on the open water, and not all deaths are by natural causes…  Go to http://betterhelp.com/30MM to get 10% off your first month of BetterHelp. Go to http://dietsmoke.com and use promo code 30MM for 20% off. Follow us on Social: https://twitter.com/elysewillems https://twitter.com/JessicaVasami Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.9

Has it ever occurred to you that cruise ships have hidden morgues in the event of a fatality?

0:40.6

All aboard for a new episode of 30 Morbid Minutes.

1:03.7

This is the podcast where we cover topics of a morbid, macab, dark, and downright grisly nature.

1:05.3

I'm Elise Willems.

1:06.7

And I'm Jessica Vasami.

1:25.6

In 2009, 87-year-old Marian Schaefer and her son Bob embarked on a 114-night Holland-America Grand Voyage cruise around the world, which amounts to about three and a half months at sea, perfect for retirees and people with excess time on their hands.

1:30.9

Around 4 p.m., Bob checked on his elderly mother in her cabin, and found her to be napping.

1:36.4

At 6 p.m., Bob checked on her again, but this time he found his mother cold to the touch.

1:37.5

She had passed away.

1:42.1

And according to records, Marion Schaefer was pronounced clinically dead by the ship's physician at 7.15 p.m., likely due to cardiac arrest.

1:46.8

Bob dealt with a necessary paperwork and arranged for the cremation of his mother's body at a nearby

1:51.3

port. What he did next may surprise some. Bob stayed aboard the ship for the remainder of the cruise,

1:57.7

with the cremated remains of his mother in tow, said Bob Schaefer, I know she would

2:03.1

want me to go on. Well, our hearts will go on today on 30 morbid minutes because we are talking

2:09.7

about death on the high seas, specifically death as it happens on cruise ships.

2:15.5

Who! Jess, have you ever been on a cruise? I have not.

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