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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReports: Canadian family drove home from Florida with dead father in backseat
Reports: Canadian family drove home from Florida with dead father in backseat
KCCI Updated: 3:59 AM CDT Apr 10, 2019
Kate Malongowski
A Canadian familys trip to Florida ended tragically after an 87-year-old man died of an apparent heart attack during the drive home.
Fernand Drapeaus wife and 60-year-old son had decided to continue driving with his body back to Canada to avoid costly fees from the U.S. health care system, the Vancouver Sun reported.
Drapeaus body was discovered in the backseat by agents along the U.S.-Canada border March 31 after being stopped and searched before driving into the country.
Authorities believe Drapeau had been dead for at least two days before he was discovered, CTV News reported.
Canadians run the risk of costly healthcare bills if they happen to need medical care while visiting the states if they're without travelers insurance.
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Reports: Canadian family drove home from Florida with dead father in backseat (Original Post)
babylonsister
Apr 2019
OP
"The patriarch, Clark Griswold, offered only, 'No comment, and don't ask about the dog...'"
Dennis Donovan
Apr 2019
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Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)1. "The patriarch, Clark Griswold, offered only, 'No comment, and don't ask about the dog...'"
spanone
(135,919 posts)12. Tragic
manor321
(3,344 posts)2. It's so very sad. I can't imagine how terrible this was for them.
mcar
(42,439 posts)3. Little Miss Sunshine
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,226 posts)4. National Lampoon's Vacation/Little Miss Sunshine come to life. nt
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)5. Holiday Road!
Wounded Bear
(58,765 posts)6. So, Florida Man Syndrome is contagious?
Me.
(35,454 posts)7. So ....What...
Did he need medical help and they ignored his need so he dies and they continued to drive him home?
lpbk2713
(42,772 posts)8. Ma Joad said to keep on driving.
Don't let the Agriculture Inspectors get nosy.
mountain grammy
(26,663 posts)9. Probably would have cost them a few thousand dollars
just to have him declared dead.. then, maybe a coronor and funeral home. How sad.
malaise
(269,256 posts)11. One of my cousins and her husband were actually vacationing in Canada
when she fell ill. These were not poor hungry people - they were both lawyers but she insisted on heading back to New York - she had excellent US coverage. She reached home and was dead in hours - of a heart attack. She was in her mid sixties.
SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)13. And if anything like the US
there is likely a repatriation fee in order to have the body delivered back to the home country.
Hekate
(90,978 posts)10. I swear, this is uncannily like the plot of an urban legend I read years ago.
renate
(13,776 posts)14. that is so, so, so sad
I can't imagine the trauma. It's just so heartbreaking.