Oh snap, THAT’S where we left grandomomamma. Bummer :/
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 …
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.
What an awful way to die, abandoned and alone.
This was clearly negligence by the crew, both leaving an 80 year old woman alone, and then not do a head count before leaving.Are you kidding this is in my top 3 ways to die! 80, on a tropical island, and with nobody near me!
The other two ways involve explosive vests.
Lemme guess, you slide the vest under an armored vehicle heading your direction so it flips upside down and squishes you?
Calm down Michael Bay.
I know enough about cruise ships to know this smells fishy.
She probably died on board and they left her on an island as a cover up. They have been known to do weird stuff such as storing bodies in freezers along with food. There’s weird protocol and much legal work. Scandalous. Don’t be old on a cruise ship, fo sho
In this case a headcount before leaving could kinda have been feasible as the ship only had 120 passengers - often it isn’t simply because modern cruise ships tend to be massive and have way too many passengers to keep track of - but from what I could understand they had an electronic system in place and for some reason she either wasn’t marked as having left, or had somehow been mistakingly marked as returned.
She was noticed as missing when they did do a “headcount”, during the evening dinner.
This actually seems to happen semi-regularly in Queensland. This is certainly not the first time.
You’d think they’d have some kind of infallible double redundancy tag out system.
One wonders how often this might happen and go unreported.
Edit: oof. Sorry, I just read the article. Looks like she didn’t die because she was left behind. Rather, she fell off a cliff and died which is why she didn’t board the boat prior to it’s departure. Still. Wouldn’t hurt to have some awareness of how many passengers had re-boarded the boat.
Only been on one cruise years ago but pretty sure the fine print you agree to says, if your not back on the ship when it’s time to leave port you’re on your own finding your way onward.
Yeah, but fine print isn’t always binding.
You can leave someone in Port if they were dawdling back from the bar.
You can’t leave an 80 year old woman alone on an uninhabited island in the heat with no water.
It’s prob should have a level of care from the cruise company when it’s to a remote or uninhabited island VRs a tourist city.
True.
The logistics of handling that many people makes it near impossible to manage. But I get what you’re saying.
I think you should go read it again. It isn’t really clear when she died.
Read this as 80 passengers first and was a tad shocked
80-year-old passenger or 80 year-old passengers?
Very different news story
I wasn’t aware marooning was still a practice on cruise ships
Probably some kind of agitator.
Aww, these poor cruise-faring souls only wanted to pollute and consume a little, but they died instead. Tragic.
An 80 year old woman was abandoned on a hiking trail and fell off the trail to her death. What the fuck is wrong with you
I find it ironic she died in the ecological environment she was trying to destroy.
Extremism. Somehow people like that think they’re better when they spread such callous indifference.
Like I get it, cruises aren’t good for the environment at all but acting like someone deserved to die for it? They want to save humanity without bothering to preserve humanity.
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I hope you don’t crash your car or choke on a bone.
They can’t, this person obvious doesn’t pollute or consume whatsoever. They have no existence at all.
Ignore the internet posting they do, theirs isn’t in any way related to generation of electricity or anything that could possibly negatively harm the earth in any way.
An orc died by its own blade, and all the other orcs rose up in ululation, for the irony was not lost upon them, and the truth hurt.
Look in the mirror bro, we’re all orcs.
And if I ever got on a cruise ship feel free to celebrate my well-deserved demise.
Why just cruise ships? Why not driving a car, or eating meat?
Driving a car isn’t optional for most people. Similarly, not eating meat can be onerous in our culture. Both cars and meat eating fall under the so-called Plight of the Commons.
By contrast, taking a cruise ship is a gratuitous act of evil.
I’m sorry what - after that poetry about orcs, you seriously still eat meat and justify it with this self-serving excuse? No it is not onerous. You don’t even have to tell anyone. It’s easy and cheaper.
We can go back and forth on purity tests that conveniently favor ourselves, cheering at the deaths of commons… or you can direct your anger at systemic change that can actually help. Inb4 worthless bitter nihilism.
