Posted on 10/02/2010 6:16:13 PM PDT by markomalley
A Staten Island couple is suing New York City after the shocking discovery that their dead son's brain was on display in a jar at a city morgue.
Jesse Shipley was 17 when he died in a car crash in 2005.
Andre and Korisha Shipley said they had no idea his brain was removed during an autopsy until some of the teen's classmates at Port Richmond High School visited a morgue on a field trip.
While on the tour, the kids, who were members of a forensic science club, came across a jar with a brain floating inside and their dead friend's name on the label.
The family's lawyer, Marvin Ben-Aron, told the New York Post that the sight left the kids "shaking and upset."
Student Samantha Feldman, now 22, told the New York Daily News that the group of kids included Jesse Shipley's girlfriend and her best friend.
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Why would there be a need to put a person’s name on such a specimen?
Somewhere Ted Williams is jealous.
Holy cripes!
This is your brain on dislpay at the morgue.
I understand that this was a forensics club, but a morgue? When I was a teen, my ambitions were to be a pathologist, no one ever suggested a field trip to the morgue. It just seems....bizarre.
Back when I was in high school, the only field trips we got were to strip clubs. Oh wait, those weren’t field trips.
The math isn’t adding up. He was 17 when he died in 2005. Thats 5 years ago.
They are now 22 and on a high school field trip?
“Why would there be a need to put a person’s name on such a specimen?”
I think the more important question is why are they removing body parts without the families approval.
That Depends on the school...
When a Senior in HS, I talked the principle and staff into letting us have a three-day week of "mini-courses". Self-defense lessons, manufacturing facility tours, bowling, swimming, etc.
The very first class to fill up was "Mortuary Science", the final lesson being a behind-the-scene tour of the local funeral home.
But I'm afraid I don't have any to spare.
“After the incident, the city returned the brain and the family disinterred their son from a cemetery and then reburied him with the missing organ”
Why?
Abby Normal
“I think the more important question is why are they removing body parts without the families approval.”
They empty the body, return it, then do whatever they like with the organs.
It’s always been this way.
>The math isn’t adding up. He was 17 when he died in 2005. Thats 5 years ago.
They are now 22 and on a high school field trip?
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That’s age discrimination, buddy! If they’re 30 year old’s in high school, who are we to judge? (sarc/)
In fact before I registered I thought it might make a good FR screen name. I just checked and it looks like it's still available, in case any lurkers are in need.
A field trip to the morgue? Did the stop for a picnic lunch at the cemetery?
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