What happens if you die in flight? Not much

So it turns out that if you die on an airline flight more likely than not an attendant will throw a blanket over you and the flight will go on. It was a question that begged to be asked after the death last week of a woman, Carine Desir, during an American Airlines flight from Haiti to New York. The airline is facing scrutiny over whether there were problems with some of its onboard emergency equipment.
In Desir's case, her body was covered with a blanket and placed on the floor in first class. Other passengers were shifted from adjacent seats and the flight continued to New York, even though it could have landed in Miami. The AP is now reporting that American's response is pretty common (although apparently sometimes they put the deceased in a body bag if they have one and/or just strap them into a seat). And federal regulators say there don't appear to be any policies that dictate what should be done, leaving the decision up to carriers. How often does this problem come up? There aren't any solid figures, but numbers kept by a company called MedAire, which helps airlines deal with in-flight medical problems, suggest that the number of annual deaths exceeds 260 a year.
In other words, your odds of dying while on a plane for medical reasons are about 1 in 7.6 million. On the other hand, you have a 1-in-1.3-million chance of getting killed in a place crash. And, it turns out, only a 1-in-5.2-million shot of scoring big time in Megabucks.
Think I'll go get a quick pick and travel by car for a while.