This is a really sick story - and I laughed way too hard. Oh my goodness, the picture of Brad Pitt from Seven did it.
“someone removed Garlington’s brain from his body and put it in an unmarked cardboard box”
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It sounds like someone at the funeral home didn’t like someone in the family, or it was a very unhappy employee looking to cause the funeral home embarrassment.
I guess someone figured the family wouldn’t mind a little bit extra of their son.
Still, sounds like someone really screwed the pooch here.
I have to laugh ... because I don't want to cry. Or vomit.
Did the son agree to have his body turned over to a local medical school for study?
A friend’s daughter is in medical school now, and her class is now doing dissection of a recently deceased person, so such is not uncommon. I was told the body is returned to the family after 3 days.
The Crematorium is most at fault for not burning that up with everything else. Someone made a huge error in judgement to ship that “calamity” to the the funeral home for no reason. Probably, no one thought to take a good look
Same thing with the funeral home. Lack of due diligence, careless and lazy results unceremoniously dumped on the elderly parents of the deceased. And yet, neither even bothers to apologize! Incredible.
This sounds like a made up clickbait story.
Maybe I’ve been listening to too much classic rock recently, but first thought that came to mind was an album by ELP, “Brain Salad Surgery”.
The rules on transporting remains are very strict. You can’t even take cremated ashes across the border without a license. So if you move to a new state, don’t just pack up granny’s urn with the other furniture!
Wow, this is a legitimate story. More details at this link.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/veteran-brain-box-lawsuit-b2796633.html
“The owner of Nix & Nix Funeral Homes said that his team didn’t know that the box contained brain matter and noted that the state board did a thorough investigation and cleared them of wrongdoing.”
Anyone ever hear of cremation remains containing anything except ashes? They remove all sorts of things from the ashes, pacemakers, teeth, gold fillings, joint replacements, dental implants, ...... I’ve seen small pieces of bones in the ashes, but not much more.
I bet the family wasn’t given any cash from his wallet or jewelry he was wearing.
I read this earlier - with a 10/10 gross factor warning.
How on earth did this happen?
Why was the brain separated from the body in the first place - and then sent back to the family in a box?
Needs to be traced back, so far all parties involved are saying they “didn’t do it.”
Remember the old National Lampoon Vacation movie where Chevy Chase hauled grandma home in the canoe on the roof of the car?
I joked with my wife when she asked about transporting my mother’s remains about 500 miles for burial. My reply, “I have a canoe!”
I also learned to cross the arms of the person on their chest after death. If you don’t, it’s hard to get the body through the doorway after rigor mortis sets in.
Well, the brain didn’t remove itself from the buy’s skull.
And nobody else would have and then given it to the funeral home.
Therefore someone at the funeral home had to be the one who did it.
Yes, we are too lawsuit happy, but in this case, I’m with the parents. This is just horrific.
Someone wasn’t using his brain.
Why does everyone presume that it was the son’s brains? I doubt that antone can tell by looking.