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Funeral Home Sends Brain to Family
Albuquerque Journal ^ | Wednesday, January 06, 2010 | Vic Vela

Posted on 01/06/2010 12:45:22 PM PST by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at abqjournal.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: brain; dead; napl
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To: woofie

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


21 posted on 01/06/2010 1:01:52 PM PST by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: woofie

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


22 posted on 01/06/2010 1:05:34 PM PST by Disambiguator
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To: woofie
"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.


23 posted on 01/06/2010 1:07:05 PM PST by SouthDixie (We are but angels with one wing, it takes two to fly.)
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To: SouthDixie

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.


24 posted on 01/06/2010 1:09:21 PM PST by Concho
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25 posted on 01/06/2010 1:09:53 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Disambiguator
Cue up the Espanola jokes.

So many...

26 posted on 01/06/2010 1:10:53 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: SouthDixie
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... :-)

27 posted on 01/06/2010 1:12:41 PM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Star Traveler; Tijeras_Slim; WayneS; UCFRoadWarrior

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


28 posted on 01/06/2010 1:16:31 PM PST by T Minus Four (Christians follow Christ, not other Christians)
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To: T Minus Four
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? ;)

29 posted on 01/06/2010 1:18:12 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: WayneS

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


30 posted on 01/06/2010 1:18:12 PM PST by 1776 Reborn
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31 posted on 01/06/2010 1:18:16 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Gasp! Never! :-)


32 posted on 01/06/2010 1:19:28 PM PST by T Minus Four (Christians follow Christ, not other Christians)
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To: martin_fierro

....when funerals go bad.


33 posted on 01/06/2010 1:19:28 PM PST by ErnBatavia (It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
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To: Star Traveler

Okay. Okay.

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

Now will you please give it rest?


34 posted on 01/06/2010 1:22:21 PM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: Star Traveler

Okay. Okay.

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

Now will you please give it a rest?


35 posted on 01/06/2010 1:22:35 PM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: woofie

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


36 posted on 01/06/2010 1:23:15 PM PST by OB1kNOb (Q: What's the difference between Obama and his dog, Bo? A: Bo has papers.)
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To: woofie

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


37 posted on 01/06/2010 1:24:11 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: andy58-in-nh
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?
38 posted on 01/06/2010 1:24:30 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: woofie
They sent Brain?

Wonder what they did with Pinky?

Narf!

39 posted on 01/06/2010 1:24:56 PM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best.)
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To: OB1kNOb

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


40 posted on 01/06/2010 1:27:18 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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