Spin-off from Travel Ins. Thread: If a Loved One Died While You Were on Vacation...

[TheDisneyNurse]

I feel really bad... But it would honestly depend on who died. If it was someone close (God forbid), I would rush home immeadiately. If it was say... A cousin that I'm not in touch with or something, I would phone in my condolences, but I would not cancel the trip.

 

[Colleen27]

It would depend on the situation. I'd want to be notified regardless, so I could make my own decision. I'd certainly rush home if it was a situation of being able to come home to say goodbye and provide comfort to my loved one in his/her final moments. If the loved one was already gone, though, I might or might not interrupt the trip to go home to mourn.

My grandmother died on the first day of our 2008 Disney trip and I didn't cut the trip short to come home for the funeral. My grandmother wouldn't have wanted that, and my mother didn't want it either (I'd have come home if she needed the support/help). My grandmother was 90, in the advanced stages of Alzheimers, and frankly we'd said our goodbyes and mourned losing her long before her physical death. A few members of the extended family got a little high and mighty about me not being there but the people who mattered - my mom, my brother, and my grandmother's sisters who we were particularly close to - all agreed that Grandma wouldn't have wanted us to cancel a trip with the kids to come to her funeral. A different set of circumstances might have warranted coming home but in this case we decided to go ahead with the trip as planned.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Depends on who died.

Yes and will add the circumstances matter as well for me.

 

[eliza61]

that's why I always buy trip insurance for big trips.

My dad died two days before my sister and I were to leave for Paris. lol then of course we reschedule the trip and then the stupid volcanoe in Iceland errupted and it got cancelled again.

Do you think the cosmos was telling us to stay out of Paris.

 

[Goofy_Disney_Dad]

Yes and will add the circumstances matter as well for me.

I didn't think about that, but you're right, the circumstances would matter as well.

 

[TLSnell1981]

I was my grandmothers caregiver for several years. She was on hospice for the last year. I struggled with traveling and the what ifs. I made plans and contingencies...decided not to worry, until I needed to make a choice.

We booked a Disney trip with DGKS, during spring break, after discussing my Grandmothers condition with hospice. She was doing well and not expected to succumb to her illness, within the next few weeks. Well, four days before our trip, she took a sharp turn for the worse. She passed away within hours. Funeral plans were finalized and I buried her the day before our vacation. I was numb and cried every night, after I went to bed. But I appreciated every moment with my family even more. I was thankful and happy to watch the kids smile and laugh...not mope and cry.

We can't predict life and death. Faced with the same situation...don't know, what I would do. I wouldn't have wanted her to be alone.