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Cruise line let passenger’s body decompose, lawsuit says
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A widow and her family are suing Celebrity Cruises for allegedly mishandling her husband’s body after he died while they were on a ship last year, saying it was left to decompose and they suffered extreme emotional trauma.
After Marilyn Jones’ husband of 55 years, Robert Jones, died of a heart attack Aug. 15 onboard the Celebrity Equinox, his body was stored for nearly a week inside a walk-in cooler normally used for beverages instead of a properly chilled morgue as she was promised, according to the federal lawsuit filed in Florida.
That left the body bloated and green, and the family was unable to have an open-coffin funeral “which was a long standing family custom and was what his family had desired,” the lawsuit says. Marilyn Jones, her two daughters and three grandchildren are seeking $1 million in damages.
Celebrity Cruises declined to comment, citing the case’s sensitivity and “out of respect for the family.” The Celebrity Equinox, which cruises the Caribbean year-round out of Fort Lauderdale, is flagged out of Malta and can carry almost 3,000 passengers and 1,200 crew members.
According to the lawsuit, which was filed Wednesday in Fort Lauderdale, after Robert Jones died, his widow was given two choices by crew members.
https://apnews.com/article/cruise-ship-death-celebrity-florida-lawsuit-c940a669e70b685a3d86467888af5ca6
John Kerry says the US and China haven't done enough for climate change, must work together
"It's just that we're not, all of us, doing enough, and we're not doing enough fast enough," Kerry said.
Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry said that China and the U.S. have to work together to combat climate change and that the two countries are currently not doing enough.
"There's no way that any one country can solve this crisis and, particularly, if we are large emitting nations," he said during an MSNBC interview with correspondent Andrea Mitchell.
"So it is imperative that China and the United States find a way to cooperate with respect to the climate crisis," he continued.
"We're seeing the price of wind and solar coming down still, even as the technology is getting better," he added. "And it's going to be far more price competitive than oil and gas if they have to spend huge amounts of money for carbon capture and storage and utilization."
Kerry was sworn in as the nation's first Special Presidential Envoy for Climate in 2021 in the Biden administration.
He emphasized in the interview that emissions were the main problem when it comes to climate change.
"Everybody understands that in the world – that the emissions are the problem. It's the way we burn our fuel. It's the way we heat our homes. It's the way we move our vehicles," Kerry said.
https://justthenews.com/nation/science/john-kerry-says-us-and-china-havent-done-enough-climate-change-must-work-together