Lawsuit alleges improper storage of passenger's body on Celebrity Cruise.
Celebrity Cruises is facing a lawsuit for allegedly mishandling the body of a deceased passenger by allowing it to decompose in a drink cooler aboard the ship last year. Robert Jones, 78, died of a heart attack in August 2022 aboard the Celebrity Equinox as it sailed the Caribbean, and the cruise line contacted his widow, Marilyn Jones, with a choice, according to the suit. Jones chose to have her late husband’s body stored in the ship’s morgue, but when the ship arrived, a funeral home employee and sheriff’s deputy found the morgue apparently out of service and the bagged body stored in a walk-in drink cooler on a pallet, the suit claimed. Marilyn Jones, her two daughters and three grandchildren are seeking $1 million in damages from Celebrity Cruises.