ARRESTED FOR CHECKING IN A DEAD MAN

TWO WOMEN TRIED TO TAKE CORPSE
ON FLIGHT FROM LIVERPOOL TO BERLIN

LONDON (USA Today) - Two German women were seized by police for trying to check in a dead man on a weekend flight from Liverpool, U.K. to Berlin. They now face possible charges for suspicion of failing to give notification of death' of a 91-year-old man", according to U.K. police, who are investigating whether the women were conspiring to avoid high repatriation costs with an unusual tactic. The women apparently brought the man to the Liverpool's John Lennon airport in a taxi and then tried to check him in for a flight to Berlin on Easyjet. The man was seated in a wheelchair and had sunglasses on. The women claim they thought he was sleeping. An airport worker said he became aware of the situation after Mr Jarant's face touched his while he was trying to help Mr Jarant out of the taxi and into a wheelchair, immediately suspected that he was in fact dead. The pair, who are German nationals living in Oldham, have denied Mr Jarant had died 24 hours earlier and that they had transported his body by taxi to the airport, and they also deny the accusations of trying to smuggle a dead relative onto a plane, by saying Mr Jarant was alive when they left home.

They claimed they had no idea the man was dead. "Willi had Alzheimer's and had not been in good health and wanted to go back to Germany to die," Mr Jarant's daughter, told the Daily Mail. "He was alive in the taxi and when we arrived at the airport ... he must have died as he was wheeled into the airport." she said. The pair have not been charged. They have been released on bail until June 1, pending a full investigation.

Due to false identification of oneself with the body and the material world, one is entrapped by māyā. We should understand that one is not the material body but the owner of the body. Due to a lack of knowledge of self, these women were kept very attached to deceased relative's body, even after the soul had already left.

WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US?

We transmigrate from one body to another in bodies that are products of our illusion, but as spirit souls we always exist separately from material, conditional life. ... A house or car is always different from its owner, but because of attachment the conditioned soul thinks it to be identical with him. A car or house is actually made of material elements; as long as the material elements combine together properly, the car or house exists, and when they are disassembled the house or the car is disassembled. The spirit soul, however, always remains as he is.

Śrīla A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda :
“The Śrīmad Bhāgavatam”
Purport in Canto 7 - Chapter 2 - Verse 42.