Bring_Back_Buggy_Whips@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoCruise passenger, 80, found dead after being abandoned on Great Barrier Reef island - ABC Newsabcnews.go.comexternal-linkmessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up1253arrow-down13
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minus-squaretroed@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up67·3 days ago She appeared to have fallen from a cliff or slope This sounds a bit weird but I hope she died from the fall rather than from having been left there …
minus-squarebrem@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 day agoBest I can do is she died on top and the wind blew her over the edge.
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39·2 days agoThat seems the most likely: “Mum felt ill on the hill climb. She was asked to head down, unescorted. Then the ship left” She fell on the trail headed back. Sending an 80 year old, who felt ill, back unescorted was a failure in duty and comprehension. In fact, take the age out of it, sending anyone who feels ill back unescorted is a failure in duty and comprehension.
minus-squarebrem@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·1 day agoDying at 80 is a privilege, let’s just hope it wasn’t painful.
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 day agoMy guess is, falling to death off a trail on a place called “Lizard Island” was likely pretty awful.
This sounds a bit weird but I hope she died from the fall rather than from having been left there …
Best I can do is she died on top and the wind blew her over the edge.
Thanks Rick
That seems the most likely:
“Mum felt ill on the hill climb. She was asked to head down, unescorted. Then the ship left”
She fell on the trail headed back. Sending an 80 year old, who felt ill, back unescorted was a failure in duty and comprehension.
In fact, take the age out of it, sending anyone who feels ill back unescorted is a failure in duty and comprehension.
Dying at 80 is a privilege, let’s just hope it wasn’t painful.
My guess is, falling to death off a trail on a place called “Lizard Island” was likely pretty awful.