BRAINS!!!!!!!...No, Not Zombies But Is This Fucked Up, Or What?
 

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http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local...104204988.html

Students Find Teen Classmate's Brain on Display During Morgue Field Trip
Distraught parents suing city, medical examiner's office

Updated 12:25 PM EDT, Sat, Oct 2, 2010

Classmates of a 17-year-old boy who lost his life in a horrific car crash discovered a gruesome scene during a field trip to the morgue: The dead student's brain.

Jesse Shipley died when the car he was in collided with an SUV in January 2005. His 14-year-old sister who was in the car with him suffered only minor injuries, but court papers claim she witnessed the agonizing death of her older brother. A medical examiner listed Shipley's official cause of death as blunt impact wounds to the head.

Two months later, Shipley's classmates in the forensic-science club at Port Richmond High School took a field trip to the morgue and found the boy's brain floating in a glass jar with a label that clearly identified the organ as his, according to court records cited by The New York Post.

The bereaved family's priest said the boy wasn't properly buried without his brain, and thus the parents, after receiving an emergency court order to have the organ returned, had to bury their son twice in a matter of months.

A doctor in the medical examiner's office maintains no wrong was done, saying that he kept the brain to conduct additional tests and that he usually waited until he had collected at least six brains before he asked the neuropathologic examiner to make the trip. It wasn't immediately clear why the boy's brain had to be tested further considering the cause of death had already been determined.

But Shipley's parents hadn't even known the medical examiner removed their son's brain for further investigation prior to releasing his remains. And now they're suing the city and the medical examiner's office for unspecified monetary damages, claiming the mismanagement of Jesse's body caused significant emotional distress, compounding their already severe sadness over his loss.

Neither the Shipleys nor their attorney immediately returned NBCNewYork's calls for comment.
First Published: Oct 2, 2010 9:22 AM EDT

That is fucked up. How does the state have the right to take your dead body parts?

There is a reference in the article about future study for determination of cause of death but this reads like the usual garden-variety fuckup to me.

I wonder why they had his name on it.

I bet it would be great to work there.

I think you would take advantage of the odd hot dead babe.

Plus if the bodies are fresh enough, I would be selling bits to the local butcher.

maybe he was eating them.

In life he had no name.

In death he has a name.

His name is Jesse Shipley.

I think those school kids are just soft.

If it was one of my mates I would have stuck googly eyes on the jar and drew a big smile on it.

I told my dad that when he stiffs it, I am putting him in a glass coffin and putting him on webcam so people can watch him rot and worms eat him. I bet that would sell. He has objected to the idea, as if I care.

What did they think they were going to find in a morgue?

No kidding. What a choice for a field trip. Wonder if they played "Dead Bodies Everywhere" on the PA at some point once the kids were there.

Lots of empty refrigerated drawers like in a film I expect.

If a body goes for a post mortem all sorts of things get removed for studies, not sure why the family didn't know that.

Just realized the reason they were all in shock and upset was because they had him labeled "homo" and none of them knew he was one.

:1orglaugh I'm bored.

first rule of fight club...we dont talk about fight club

It must be horrific to bury your son once, can't imagine going through that twice

So, he did not make through the pearly gates because his brain was left in a bottle of formaldehyde? Please...

maybe not but i think it belongs to the family. :2 cents:

People assume they have more legal rights than they really do. Try selling a kidney, an arm, and/or a leg in the U.S. and see how that goes ... the government owns you!

It's all about control - those with money and connections have more freedom than those without - the same extends to medical care ... especially persons who turn to "research" hospitals for subsidized care often times must agree to provisions including accepting "experimental" procedures and parts of their body being retained for research.

Ron

So what. When i'm dead i'd much rather someone was able to benefit from research done to bits of me than just being cremated or turned into worm-food. You don't need your brain when you're dead.

no kidding, what a terrible choice for a field trip location... :1orglaugh