[UGAalum94]

If the oxygen tanks were empty or they delayed in providing oxygen, it seems pretty bad, but oxygen isn't going prevent you from dying of heart disease, I wouldn't think.

The passenger's relative is saying the defibrillator malfunctioned, but the airline says it wouldn't work on her because her heart rhythm was too weak to shock back into natural rhythm.

I think it's sad the woman is dead no matter what, but I'm not sure that you can reasonably expect that airline personnel are going to save your life if you have a heart attack or a heart-disease related event mid-flight. I'll bet there's going to be a suit, so maybe we'll find out more about what obligation the airline has.

It would be a little freaky to have a dead body on the flight near you, but I'm not sure what the options are. There were probably fewer people and more space in 1st class.

ETA: Random literary moment: there's a short story, I think it might be by Willa Cather, about a women whose husband dies while they are on a cross country train trip and she decides that she has to pretend he's sleeping for the rest of the trip to the porters, conductors, etc, so they don't make them get off in the middle of nowhere to see an undertaker and wait for the next train. She knows that it's the difference between being home in less than a day and not being home for a week. I don't know that I could pull it off. I think I would be freaked out so much.