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What Happens When You Die During a Commercial Flight?

#flight#deadbody#blanket#singapore#anxiety
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0:00 foreign what do you guys think happened when you die on a commercial flight unless you know I think they they throw you out the back yeah oh you're at the back like when you die like Mr spocks someone died on the flight here what yeah so like you know how you know how they did do those things of like if there's a medical professional please go to aisle whatever that's for doctors yeah so um yeah they did that thing whatever whatever and then um I went the bathroom was kind of like busy so I went to the one to the very back right where the whole ████ went down so when I went back there there were two people like like this

0:50 with the whole blanket from top to bottom just the whole two people by two laying down I don't know they're just covered and I don't know if they got ████ both sick or what I don't know what the ████ happened yeah but it looked like a body bag thing they're laying down no they're no they're sitting they're sitting you just imagine sitting next to someone there's two ████ side by side and they just have a blanket like covered dude yeah you wanna know something crazy that is exactly what they do when a person dies for real so was there like a double death or some ████ I don't know no because people look just like weirded out right so I went to the bathroom and then I went back and then I really think that could have they could have died because yeah that's the exactly they said that that ████ the medic had to come in and all that stuff

1:41 the thing that happens is that they don't tell the plane they try to make it very very quiet and they just cover them that's exactly isn't that the worst way to do it it could have been one but my mind is thinking too because they just throw these on yeah they just put some headphones on them that's way better like weekend at Bernie style you know yeah I feel like the the blanket over the head is I could be tricking my own mind and thinking that it was like multiple people but it could just be one so usually um that's that's the most frequent thing but um if they can they might sit the body down uh best case scenario like Singapore Airlines has this can you imagine sitting next to a dead ████ well yeah that's it you're trying to enjoy your ████ everything everywhere all at once yeah some people have had to some people had to sit next

2:31 to a deadline but the main things that like best case scenario Singapore Airlines has this compartment where they can put the dead body but like no other airlines has that oh can you imagine well they got long flights imagine some guy dies and then they put the sheet over him but then he's in the aisle seat and you're ████ the military I gotta use the John oh my god dude excuse me excuse me I had to get up so also they're um and then there's also a chance that they might be able to sit the body where the uh uh what is it the attendant sits oh my God the backpack they'll just like close the curtain but most of the time it's exactly what you described yeah it is where they just kind of leave them in the seat they put the sheet over them and they just have to get on with the flight and once they get there here's the crazy thing it's actually on paper it's impossible to die in a

3:21 plane because there's nobody there that can legally declare you dead um so technical actually dead but then you're you're actually great but not like dead on paper yeah that's why that's kind of like the whole in a way loophole like it's not technically a dead body because there's nobody there to declare I mean but a dead body is a dead body what about the deadhead seat that I saw from Kiss Me If You Can why can't they sit up in in the front with the captain with the pilot yep so if someone dies do I get an automatic first class upgrade on my next flight they what they try to do is if there's ways that they can reseat um passengers they try to quietly relocate them to be like hey like if it's okay and they'll give you a snack box with it it was a packed flight though but it was like an apple it was so weird yeah it was like a blanket like a pinkish blanket like just covering the

4:12 whole thing and it and it looked like a mummified you saw a dead person yeah that's a dead guy why would they cover that's just an orange guy yeah now I was just walking by and I was like looking at it like well you know some people they sleep like that yeah but like they just cover their face I do that yeah not like head to toe because I see people with a hoodie and then they ████ tie that like Kenny style and then they go down but you really wouldn't see that after a bunch of like people have tried to give medical exam like a furniture blanket over the kitchen yeah it could be one of those things where my mind is just not just registering until later like yeah that's probably what happened yeah it probably you got a ████ U-Haul blanket it says 8.99 in town all over it it's like nobody sits up like this dude nobody that's right and his seat's not reclined get out of here that's how you tell what

5:03 if there's turbulence oh his head's on your shoulders ████ dude I just want to watch Elvis and peace like get the ████ out of here kid I can't imagine though like you know how sometimes when you die you void your bowels yeah dude I was thinking the same thing like don't you doesn't that smell insane like how do you yeah what do you what did they say also like how long is the flight and when did you die I've given during the time of the flight what if you died on takeoff and it's an 18-hour flight oh come on that's why Singapore Air got the compartment probably that's crazy yeah well the lucky thing is if it were to happen when the plane was still grounded in some way they can at least like stop but they don't normally it says they don't normally like let's say they're in Flight right yeah they're not gonna interrupt you can like land here and just let the body up they don't do that at all what if that's a hack to to

5:54 get the body at the destination what's it if it's what if it's like a little hack like a little travel hack like die on the way to your ████ destination so then say that's where you're from right say I'm from Singapore and I'm one I want to be buried in Singapore well what if you're visiting Singapore and now your family's in America and the boss that's what I mean you got to ship your body to where you're gonna go dude my family will take the deal my family takes the deal you save money they bury him there yeah he's already there bury him there yeah bury him put him in ashes send him back what's cheaper you know there's another time that a guy almost died next to me yeah dude death follows he's going to uh Las Vegas and then it was funny it was old dude dressing like Steve dude like jumpsuit all blinged out like is that funny what's funny about that it's my

6:46 identity it was him in his it was cute because they're an old couple um and matching jumpsuits kind of stuff you know ████ loud as ████ they're probably like super big party goers in the 70s or whatever and then we're on the we're on the plane they're sitting next to me they're cool and then like he was just kind of um like like apologetic about something like oh I'm gonna nap this and oh I didn't sleep much or whatever right and I was like okay and then um wife was sitting next to me she was really nice and then we take off and then like you know it's a quick flight but um we're about to land like it's a you know how they tell you like put your seat belts on whatever uh everything is kind of like don't get up right so right when we're about to land she's like

7:36 honey are you okay okay she goes honey honey talk to me talk to me right and then so he's not answering she goes are you having a seizure are you having a seat she's like freaking out she goes oh what do I do and I'm just like oh ████ so then I start hitting the the the the help me button right turn the fan off and then the lady's looking at me and she goes oh we can't get up right now and I'm all like no Spirit I'm like hey you need to pay first she's like oh we can't stand up right now and I'm like it's an emergency he needs help right so then she's like oh ████ so they run up and then she's like uh is he okay like what is the medical condition she goes oh he's having a seizure she runs back ████ says is there any medical professional please come over people just start ████ rushing like three people a doctor a nurse whatever they started like working over me and ████ so I'm just like let me

8:27 ████ get the hell out of the way yeah and I'm just standing here just on the other seat like watching and then they were like what just balls what's this thing and the whole thing was like rocking and whatever and we were Landing like all that ████ was happening right when they were like oh yeah dude because it started happening when they they were doing the whole descending thing we're gonna land now yeah how many people uh do you think that happened to this year who knows dude but he did he was alive like he they they made it they found I think they got an oxygen tank for sure all this ████ and then as soon as um he was an oxygen oh okay like they had some ████ and then he got back up and then the first thing he said was sorry everyone and then everyone was like clapping and they're like don't even worry about it man

9:19 [Laughter] it's gonna delay my entry to the gate yeah it said that it's first dibs out what the ████ 2019 I don't know how it is every year but in 2019 uh a hundred people how many flights per day there is like there's a lot too bad it's not the people who stand up as soon as we land yeah those people that want to rush immediately when we land whoa what do you like what are you what's your favorite gosh where are you going why are you ████ Russian in front of me like she doesn't exist one row at a time dude yeah that's stupid uh if there was a God who would strike them all dead but I don't know I just don't get it like we're all in this ████ Sardine Can together like why do you get to rush out right unless you you got you know you're late

10:10 and then there's like you got a connection or some ████ you guys some people have anxiety okay well ████ that that is cool guess what guess we also have anxiety the boys in WW2 and then what could they do about it what could they do about it Urban Normandy Beach I gotta turn in a ████ hamburger meat on the beach dude well that's why they get to ride first flight though they hit the board first okay that's why they get priority morning you got anxiety and then you wash your butt next to you get turned into hamburger meat and then you're like holy ████ there's no like hey time out I don't want to talk to a counselor crazy holding out of anxiety I can't run up sorry I hate hi hello I have anxiety

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