• radiofreebc
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    1 day ago

    I know they do that on cruise ships. I used to work on ships, and we always knew the onboard morgue was full when we got hard ice cream in the mess.

      • Mirshe
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        19 hours ago

        I’d be surprised if it’s not uncommon. Cruise ships tend to skew older. If they mostly did cruises that catered towards elderly vacationers, I can see more than a few of them just buying it just from the law of averages.

          • LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz
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            4 hours ago

            To fill a morgue you just need a higher than average mortality rate.

            If the ship only has room for 2, then a 3rd death means overflow.

            Nobody said overflow means 100 people.

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                You’re right, but it also likely isn’t designed to never overflow, because then you’re wasting money, and the owners couldn’t have that! I’m sure it’s designed to handle like the highest 90% or something like that. There’s almost certainly an expected amount of overflow. It’s like all infrastructure is built to handle only a certain percentage of events, because over building has massive costs.