Automotive Headrest with Emergency Adaptations

A seatback-engageable automotive headrest including a buoyant cushion body within a casing, a rigid structure with an internal portion within the casing and an external portion outside the casing for detachable connection with the top of an automobile seatback, all as typical for automotive headrests, but also having the improvement of the casing being configured to define an accessibility opening, and a tether inside the casing adjacent to the accessibility opening and permanently attached to the rigid structure, such that, with the headrest detached from the seatback, a portion of the tether can be grasped through the accessibility opening and withdrawn for securement to a person to facilitate flotation.