It's probably a much more common than people assume. When you think about it, cruise ships sometimes have more than a thousand people on board for days and days. And old retirees are a huge proportion of cruise ship customers. Got to keep the body somewhere refrigerated until they get back to a port. Passengers dying on-board planes is worse (and that happens too) but in a plane you can't really do much except cover them in a blanket and maybe move the body to another seat until landing.

Where would be a non-idiot place to put the morgue? Typically they are placed next to the kitchen so that all the electrical and gas lines required for the cooling process can be in a central location I stead of all over the damn place.

How are people so surprised about this....?

Makes sense that they have one and that it isn't advertised... Who wants to know?

Well... it is logical to have a morgue on a cruise ship. You just have to be prepared for the worst - if some passenger dies. You can not throw him into the sea like the medieval sailors did :-)

There is ALWAYS a morgue on board! Do people think that people only die when they are NOT on vacation. They are required to have one as burial at sea as a common practice died out centuries ago. Duh!

Dafuq

How many people are dying over the course of a cruise that they need to have a morgue?

What kind of cruise ship has a morgue in it

Creepy