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Mistake Ends Woman's Wish To Donate Body To Science Grandmother's Body Accidentally Embalmed POSTED: 4:35 p.m. PST January 8, 2003 UPDATED: 4:45 p.m. PST January 8, 2003 ELK GROVE, Calif. -- An Elk Grove family who had been grieving over its grandmother's death are now grieving over the fact that her body will not be able to be used the way she wanted it to be. On Jan. 2, surrounded by her family, 82-year-old Luz Cara del Castillo died peacefully. Her family says that she didn't want a funeral. She had made plans to have her body donated to science....