Quote:Police say they’re investigating after a family attempted to cross into Canada with the corpse of a parent in the back of a van.

Sûreté du Québec told the Canadian Press, the van’s passengers were a man in his 60s and his two parents, one alive and one deceased. Police say that the call was initially for an unconscious person in the back of the van but when paramedics attended the scene they found that the man had been dead for at least two days. Police say they stopped the van at around 2:30 AM on Sunday at Quebec’s Hemmingford crossing and are investigating.

The man and his two elderly parents were reportedly driving back to Canada after a trip to Florida. La Presse reports that during the long drive home the father suffered a heart attack and died en route to Canada.

The mother and son reportedly didn’t want to use the American healthcare system and, further to that, once he was dead, didn’t want to deal with repatriating the body from America to Canada (something that can also be pricey). So, with the cost of medical treatment and flying his body back to Canada in their mind, the two continued their drive north with a dead father in the back of the van.

Making the choice to drive for miles upon miles with the slowly decomposing body of a loved one is incredibly morbid stuff, but one can see the logic in it. For many Canadians a surprise medical expense in the States can break them financially.

(04-03-2019 12:52 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

Quote:Police say they’re investigating after a family attempted to cross into Canada with the corpse of a parent in the back of a van.

Sûreté du Québec told the Canadian Press, the van’s passengers were a man in his 60s and his two parents, one alive and one deceased. Police say that the call was initially for an unconscious person in the back of the van but when paramedics attended the scene they found that the man had been dead for at least two days. Police say they stopped the van at around 2:30 AM on Sunday at Quebec’s Hemmingford crossing and are investigating.

The man and his two elderly parents were reportedly driving back to Canada after a trip to Florida. La Presse reports that during the long drive home the father suffered a heart attack and died en route to Canada.

The mother and son reportedly didn’t want to use the American healthcare system and, further to that, once he was dead, didn’t want to deal with repatriating the body from America to Canada (something that can also be pricey). So, with the cost of medical treatment and flying his body back to Canada in their mind, the two continued their drive north with a dead father in the back of the van.

Making the choice to drive for miles upon miles with the slowly decomposing body of a loved one is incredibly morbid stuff, but one can see the logic in it. For many Canadians a surprise medical expense in the States can break them financially.

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(04-04-2019 01:47 AM)JRsec Wrote:  

(04-03-2019 12:52 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

Quote:Police say they’re investigating after a family attempted to cross into Canada with the corpse of a parent in the back of a van.

Sûreté du Québec told the Canadian Press, the van’s passengers were a man in his 60s and his two parents, one alive and one deceased. Police say that the call was initially for an unconscious person in the back of the van but when paramedics attended the scene they found that the man had been dead for at least two days. Police say they stopped the van at around 2:30 AM on Sunday at Quebec’s Hemmingford crossing and are investigating.

The man and his two elderly parents were reportedly driving back to Canada after a trip to Florida. La Presse reports that during the long drive home the father suffered a heart attack and died en route to Canada.

The mother and son reportedly didn’t want to use the American healthcare system and, further to that, once he was dead, didn’t want to deal with repatriating the body from America to Canada (something that can also be pricey). So, with the cost of medical treatment and flying his body back to Canada in their mind, the two continued their drive north with a dead father in the back of the van.

Making the choice to drive for miles upon miles with the slowly decomposing body of a loved one is incredibly morbid stuff, but one can see the logic in it. For many Canadians a surprise medical expense in the States can break them financially.

Link

I think they watched "Little Miss Sunshine" once too often.