A Parent’s Worst Nightmare
I worked at Barcelona airport for a few years, and the saddest moment was also a goodbye moment. A couple with a baby of 2 came to Barcelona to visit the family of hers (she was spanish, he was british). It broke my heart when we at the sales desk realised there was a “Jim Wilson” who requested Special Asistance was on the flight. “Jim Wilson” is airline carrier code for a corpse being transported back home. So yes, the dead body was the baby of 2 who apparently collapsed for reasons I don’t know, and now was being sent back to England.
There was literally 30 people, all family of hers in the airport, saying goodbye to the little coffin. I never saw a most lost person that the mother and the grandmother. It was shocking, many of our cooworkers had to take a break for several minutes as they could not stop crying.
Now I’m a father of a 9 month babygirl…and I’m just crying remembering this.
I hope that family found a way to deal with the pain.
Story credit : Reddit / korddac