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If you or someone you know is experiencing a mental health, suicide or substance use crisis or emotional distress, reach out 24/7 to the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline (formerly known as the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline) by dialing or texting 988 or using chat services at suicidepreventionlifeline.org to connect to a trained crisis counselor. For most people, voyages aboard cruise ships are pleasant diversions, a form of recreation that allows vacationers to travel to exotic destinations while taking the comfort and luxury of a fine hotel room along with them. For some people, cruise ships have even become a way of life, as a few retirees have opted to spend their golden years permanently at sea. Have such ocean voyages now become a way of death as well, with a company offering euthanasia cruises on which the terminally ill (and others wishing to end their lives) can quietly expire in the company of like-minded individuals by sliding overboard into the sea? A Snopes reader writes: Not quite. The information about Euthanasia Cruises, Ltd. quoted above was taken from a satirical column by prankster Alan Abel which was published in the Fairfield County Weekly on 16 February 2006. (Abel is a regular contributor to that publication; similar recent spoof articles by him have featured a Michigan restaurant called Hitler's Drive-In, operated by a proprietor who is the spitting image of his infamous German namesake, and plans to build a Miles Standish-inspired Pilgrims' Casino in Connecticut.) Although the example article cited here was published in 2006, the euthanasia cruise column is actually a rehashing of a hoax Alan Abel first unleashed back in 1993.
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