Weekend at Curt's (?)

The following news article, complements of the BBC World News, mentally takes me on a mental side trip back to 1989's Weekend at Bernie's.  My favorite bit is "The women - his widow and stepdaughter - have protested their innocence and said they thought he was asleep."  Gosh, you thought he was just sleeping....for 12 hours?  If the pathologist says Curt has been dead for 12 hours, he is probably right.

A dead man who was turned away from an airport check-in desk had been dead for up to 12 hours, police have said.
Gitta Jarant and her daughter, Anke Anusic, were arrested at Liverpool John Lennon Airport when it emerged Curt Willi Jarant, 91, was dead.
The women - his widow and stepdaughter - have protested their innocence and said they thought he was asleep.
Mr Jarant, known as Willi, was wearing sunglasses in a wheelchair when staff checked his pulse and found no life.

A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said: "A Home Office post-mortem examination concluded the man died of natural causes.
"Blood samples have also been sent off for further tests.

“ How can you bring a dead person to Germany? ”
Anke Anusic

"The pathologist also concluded the death occurred up to 12 hours before he was pronounced dead.
"The two women arrested on suspicion of failing to give notification of death remain on bail until June."
Mrs Jarant, 66, and Mrs Anusic, 41, were due to board a flight to Berlin with several others when they were arrested.
They deny claims that Mr Jarant, a German national, was already dead.
He had been taken by taxi to the airport from their home in Oldham, Greater Manchester.
"He was alive. He was pale but he wasn't dead," Ms Anusic told the BBC.
"A dead person you cannot carry to Germany, there are too many people checking and security.
"How can you bring a dead person to Germany?"

Pathologists are a pretty smart bunch when it comes to dead related subjects.   My medical experience is very limited, I grew up in a house with active mommy nurse who played on both fronts, the medical side and the mental health bit.  With that infusion of medical knowledge passed down from Mum, I have spent a great deal of my time avoiding medical processes and thoughts.  But thanks to the 1987's Princess Bride I know the difference between mostly dead and all dead....



The very best bit of the article is right at the end:

"A dead person you cannot carry to Germany, there are too many people checking and security.
"How can you bring a dead person to Germany?"

 I agree entirely with this statement, I have flown through Germany 4 times and I have endured the most intense security scrutiny at the Frankfurt, Germany airport out of any airport I have ever traveled through domestically or internationally.