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Marilyn and Robert Jones set sail aboard the Celebrity Equinox cruise ship on Aug. 13 to leave Florida for eight days around the Caribbean.

Celebrity Cruises did not respond Thursday to a request for comment fromBoth in their late 70s, the Joneses, who were married 55 years and lived in Florida, had planned to cruise around the Caribbean for more than a week, hitting up ports of call in Puerto Rico, St. Maarten, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands before sailing back home.

Crew members pushed her to keep the body on the ship, the suit states. They allegedly cautioned her that there was a “50/50 shot” that the coroner’s office in San Juan would take possession of the body to perform an autopsy before releasing it to a funeral home. They assured her they could store the body in the ship’s working morgue, keeping it preserved until they got back to Florida, the suit alleges.When the Equinox arrived in Fort Lauderdale on Aug.

Tom Carey, a lawyer representing Marilyn Jones and her family, said the crew of the Equinox shouldn’t have offered up the morgue if they knew it wasn’t working, and they should have known if it wasn’t.

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