New York, N.Y. – In an extremely
unsettling ruling, a New York appeals court has ruled that your family
members’ organs can be kept by the medical examiner without having to
notify the family of the deceased.
The divisive ruling left the seven-member appeals court divided 5-2, with all justices wanting the state legislature to ultimately decide the issue.
The morbid case ensued after a New York medical examiner, doing a routine autopsy on 17-year-old vehicular accident victim Jesse Shipley, kept the brain of the teenager, only to have it be discovered by classmates on a school field trip two months later.
The organ was only discovered after a classmate of Shipley’s, on a field trip to the Staten Island morgue, noticed a brain in a jar of formaldehyde type fluid labeled with Shipley’s name on the outside of the container. The classmate then informed Shipley’s sister Shannon.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/court-rules-n-y-medical-examiners-organs-notification-consent-family/#czPtCrAR5eTmiPrK.99
The divisive ruling left the seven-member appeals court divided 5-2, with all justices wanting the state legislature to ultimately decide the issue.
The morbid case ensued after a New York medical examiner, doing a routine autopsy on 17-year-old vehicular accident victim Jesse Shipley, kept the brain of the teenager, only to have it be discovered by classmates on a school field trip two months later.
The organ was only discovered after a classmate of Shipley’s, on a field trip to the Staten Island morgue, noticed a brain in a jar of formaldehyde type fluid labeled with Shipley’s name on the outside of the container. The classmate then informed Shipley’s sister Shannon.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/court-rules-n-y-medical-examiners-organs-notification-consent-family/#czPtCrAR5eTmiPrK.99
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