LMGTFY:
Wow, it’s been a while since I’ve seen one of those (LMGTFY posts).
That’s because the mods aren’t cool with them outside the Pit, as there’s an implicit insult in doing it.
What does it stand for? Never mind, I Googled it (lol)
Nice save. 
The poor fiancée and child. It’s not a good situation for anyone but damn that would suck. Can they get off at the next port and have a way to get home?
They’ve been mostly replaced by “Let’s see what ChatGPT has to say!”
There is an old joke in the Cruise industry about ‘Free Ice Cream Day for All Passengers!’ - which meant someone had died and they needed to empty a freezer.
I think it makes a good story - considering the average age of most cruise passengers, and the fact that they have about 3-5,000 on board for a couple of weeks, I have no doubt there would be a proper contingency plan.
There are approximately 200 deaths per year on cruise ships, according to Newsweek. So one would think that a plan is in place on each and every ship.
If someone dying on a cruise ship (and ending up in the onboard morgue) sounds bad, remember that some (probably small) number of airline passengers die mid-flight. And there may be no open seats, so someone ends up sitting right next to a dead body. (The good news is that at least they’re quiet.)
Don’t dead bodies often fart?
Yes, but that can be blamed on the living passenger across the aisle.
But the point I was trying to make is this guy did die under unusual/suspicious circumstances. An 80 year old dies in their sleep far at sea, sure, they have to store the body somehow. But if they’re 3 hours from port and someone finds a recently dead body with a bullet hole in the skull, then yeah, I think they should turn back immediately and not just stash them in the morgue until the cruise is done so LSLGuy isn’t inconvenienced. And this case seems closer to a murder than an 80 year old dying of natural causes, IMHO.
My grandfather died on a cruise ship. Sat down on a deck chair, covered himself with a blanket, had a heart attack and died. It would have been a cool way to go if he wasn’t just 64.
Caitlyn Doughty, YouTube’s ask a mortician addressed this topic a while back, IRT the case of Robert Lewis Jones
Encapsulating: he died six days from port. Instead of the ship’s morgue, his body was placed in a beverage cooler (for reasons not clarified). Morgues are kept at 36 degrees F; much lower than liquid beverage refrigeration. Mr. Jones was in bad shape when the ship docked in six days, and the widow sued. Her tort rests on The Right of Sepulcher.
My million-dollar idea? A roaming water hearse in the Caribbean, which for a premium price will transport corpses back to Florida without delay. Expensive, but with tens of thousands of cruising seniors spending a few mandatory pennies on insurance premiums-embarkation, it’s a winner for everyone.
Substantially all Caribbean cruises make landfall within 36 hours of leaving the prior port. And it’s often just overnight away from port, so at most 8-10 hours.
A bizjet compatible airport is readily available at substantially every cruise destination. A chartered jet transport service for the recently deceased (de-seas-ed? 
) and accompanying next of kin would be easy to set up and much more responsive.
True. In the linked video, the cruise line offered to immediately disembark the deceased and the widow at Puerto Rico, where she could make her own arrangements. She opted to finish the scheduled route, expecting that the corpse would be stored at an appropriate temperature.
A winner of an idea: when you sign up for the cruise, in the event of your death for a small aded fee you get to be buried at sea with an appropriate ceremony including a reading from a book of your choice.
I’ve performed burials at sea when I was in the USN. For full-body burials, the coffin was slid off the chutes used for dumping shell casings overboard during combat. A slight modification could be made for cruise ships, utilizing the water slide. (For the cost-conscious guests, a less elaborate method could be made available, dubbed the “Klinghoffer.)
I’m thinking they could take this device, make it a bit more powerful, not attach the seat belts to the decedent, then sort of underhand trebuchet them well out to sea while the rest of the passengers placed bets on how far they’d fly. Then offered a final toast to their fallen comrade.
If you’re going to go out, go out in spectacular fashion.