A cruise ship worker has opened up about how common it is for passengers to pass away during long voyages.
Zoie Madigan, 28, from North Carolina, has nearly 13,000 followers on TikTok, where she documents her life on the open seas as a Norwegian Cruise Line employee.
The content creator, who uses the handle @zoiemadigan, recently went viral after sharing a morbid fact about people who die on cruises.
‘Something that I feel like no one’s talking about enough about this nine-month world cruise is how often people just simply pass away of natural causes while they’re on vacation,’ she began her video.
Zoie Madigan, 28, from North Carolina, has nearly 13,000 followers on TikTok, where she documents her life on the open seas as a Norwegian Cruise Line employee
The content creator, who uses the handle @zoiemadigan, recently went viral after sharing a morbid fact about people who die on long cruises
Zoie shared that she has been a crew member on the cruise line for about a year and a half after previously working at hotels and resorts.
‘It happens more often than you think,’ she said of people dying on the ship, but she added that it’s not a weekly occurrence.
Zoie estimated that the median age of passengers aboard her ship is ‘in the 60s,’ saying they have an older demographic compared to Carnival or Disney cruise lines.
‘I’m not trying to scare you guys, but a lot of elderly people do come on vacation and then they just pass away in their sleep or something happens, and it’s on the ship,’ she explained.
She reiterated that the world cruise passengers are on the ship for nine months.
‘I feel like they should have had to have a doctor sign off on this and give the OK for them to be able to cruise for that long,’ she said.
Zoie noted that it’s also sad for the crew to have a passenger pass away before the end of the voyage.
‘I hope this doesn’t happen, but imagine you’re working with someone for eight months, serving them breakfast, and then they just pass away in their sleep because they’re old,’ she said.
Zoie explained that a lot of elderly people pass away of natural causes on the ninth-month world cruise, saying ‘it happens more often than you think’
‘Imagine you’re working with someone for eight months, serving them breakfast, and then they just pass away in their sleep because they’re old,’ she said. ‘That would be traumatic’
Zoie’s video has been viewed more than 143,000 times and has received over 100 comments. Some people thought dying of old age on a cruise sounded nice
‘That would be traumatic. I’m sure that a lot of people never even thought of that because they don’t have this experience, and they don’t realize how often it happens.’
‘Not to be morbid, but it does happen,’ she added in the caption.
Zoie’s video has been viewed more than 143,000 times and has received over 100 comments since it was posted last week.
‘My grandma passed away on a cruise,’ one person shared. ‘That’s when I learned they keep a morgue.’
‘We had a few people pass when I was on board doing [a] South American 14-day itinerary… Death happens every day. The only [guarantee] in life,’ another responded.
‘A lady had a stroke or [something] while [snorkeling] and passed away when I went on my first cruise,’ someone else added.
Others thought dying of old age on a cruise ship seemed idyllic.
‘Sounds like a good way to go! In my sleep on a cruise, tummy full of lobster,’ one user commented.
‘Death is just a transition, not an end state. What a wonderful honor to offer joy, service at the portal,’ someone else agreed.
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