STORM2K

I read about this on Snopes. Not *this* particularly story (yet), but about the urban legend concerning deaths "at" Disney parks.

The legend is that Disney policy states that "no person ever dies on Disney property" because they won't let a person be "declared dead" at Disney. Not really sure if the policy is true or not. But in many cases, paramedics who begin CPR do not stop until a physician can make the call. And in this case, the article states:

Lifeguards performed CPR until paramedics arrived and took her to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead

so she wasn't officially "dead" until she was outside the park.

This one obviously wasn't a ride incident or an accident involving machinery, so it will be interesting to find out what happened to the poor girl.

GalvestonDuck wrote:I read about this on Snopes. Not *this* particularly story (yet), but about the urban legend concerning deaths "at" Disney parks.

The legend is that Disney policy states that "no person ever dies on Disney property" because they won't let a person be "declared dead" at Disney. Not really sure if the policy is true or not. But in many cases, paramedics who begin CPR do not stop until a physician can make the call. And in this case, the article states:

Lifeguards performed CPR until paramedics arrived and took her to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead

so she wasn't officially "dead" until she was outside the park.

This one obviously wasn't a ride incident or an accident involving machinery, so it will be interesting to find out what happened to the poor girl.

While Snopes says the legend is false, WDW sure drummed it into our heads when I worked there (1990). That, and the "fact"/legend/whatever that they only paged people on the PA system if there had been a death in that person's family.