Cruise Charges Man With $853 Rebooking Fee After Wife Dies From Cancer

The Viking Idun, a cruise ship from the Viking Rivers Cruise company, on May 24, 2014 in Cologne, Germany (Rolf Heinrich, Köln/Wikicommons)

Tom Ast had booked a trip with Viking Rivers Cruise with his wife, Marilyn, but they would never sail together. 

She died at the age of 66 from cancer. On her deathbed, she told him she wanted him to still go on the cruise that they had booked together. 

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