Funeral Home Sends Brain to Family

Albuquerque Journal ^ | Wednesday, January 06, 2010 | Vic Vela

[woofie]

SANTA FE — Members of a New Mexico family are suing an Española funeral home after they found their grandmother's brain in the bag of personal effects given to them after her death.

The discovery was made the day after the interment, when relatives "smelled a foul odor coming from the bag" they received from DeVargas Funeral Home and Crematory of the Española Valley, according to a lawsuit filed on behalf of four family members in state District Court in Albuquerque.

The bag had been left inside a family member's truck overnight. When family members opened it, they found, along with the woman's belongings, a separate bag that was labeled with her name and the word "brain," the lawsuit alleges.

"Wouldn't you agree that it was a horrible mistake?" Albuquerque attorney Richard Valle told the Journal. Valle, along with attorney Crios O'Cleireachain, filed the lawsuit. "No loved one's brain should ever be part of those belongings."

The brain has since been buried with the woman's body.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Expect to see more of this in the future - funeral homes are under ever-increasing scrutiny to prove they are not zombie-run.

[Disambiguator]

Cue up the Espanola jokes. Any NM Freepers probably know all about that town.

[SouthDixie]

"No loved one's brain should ever be part of those belongings."

I'm majoring in Funeral Director/Embalmer...this is beyond a mistake. I would like to see a license or two removed.

[Concho]

The funeral home/crematorium would not remove the brain. That had to be done at the autopsy in Utah.

No pun intended, but some heads should roll for that.

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[Tijeras_Slim]

Cue up the Espanola jokes.

So many...

[Star Traveler]

You were saying ...

I would like to see a license or two removed.

Hopefully, you're talking about in Utah and not in New Mexico... :-)

[T Minus Four]

Hey, that’s the way we do it here in Utah! Doesn’t everybody, LOL?

[Tijeras_Slim]

Hey, that’s the way we do it here in Utah! Doesn’t everybody, LOL?

What you trying to do? Start a Mormon bashing thread? Can you imagine such a thing on FR? ;)

[1776 Reborn]

Yeah, we’ll have a full funeral but hold the brain please! lol

[Paleo Conservative]

[T Minus Four]

Gasp! Never! :-)

[ErnBatavia]

....when funerals go bad.

[WayneS]

Okay. Okay.

We ALL get it now. The mistake was made in Utah, not New Mexico.

Now will you please give it rest?

[WayneS]

Okay. Okay.

We ALL get it now. The mistake was made in Utah, not New Mexico.

Now will you please give it a rest?

[OB1kNOb]

I guess the funeral home was trying to give the family piece of mind about grandma’s passing.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

I guess we could say that “things were brought to a head!”

[colorado tanker]

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [to Igor] Now that brain that you gave me. Was it Hans Delbruck's?
Igor: [pause, then] No.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Ah! Very good. Would you mind telling me whose brain I DID put in?
Igor: Then you won't be angry?
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: I will NOT be angry.
Igor: Abby Someone.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [pause, then] Abby Someone. Abby who?
Igor: Abby Normal.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [pause, then] Abby Normal?
Igor: I'm almost sure that was the name.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [chuckles, then] Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain into a seven and a half foot long, fifty-four inch wide GORILLA?
[grabs Igor and starts throttling him]
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Is that what you're telling me?

[N. Theknow]

They sent Brain?

Wonder what they did with Pinky?

Narf!

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Not bad! It took a bit of brains to think up that pun.