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.
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I believe I heard on the radio that the woman who dies was the mother and not the grandmother.
I believe I heard on the radio that the woman who died was the mother and not the grandmother.
Wow this is really sad, but it is fuuuuuuunnnnyyyy tooo!
This should be on a plaque somewhere: “No loved one’s brain should ever be part of those belongings.”
The Business Socialists may disagree...but this funeral home needs to be sued until it hurts. That is disgusting what this family had to go thrw
So many of these funeral homes are shady....and rip off people in their most time of need. No other type of business would stay in business if they committed the criminal activities many of these funeral parlors do.
I hate it when that happens.
Family: Funeral home sent brain home in bag
The funeral home said it wasn't their fault because apparently it came from Utah that way (and they're implying that they didn't know it themselves, the way I read it).
So in other words, in Utah, the brain was separated from the body and then it was sent in some other bag, and no one knew what was in it and the funeral home simply passed on to the family a bag that was sent from the accident scene.
Hence, the funeral home had nothing to do with it, other than passing along to the family a bag that was sent to be given to the family.
Again..., that's the way I read the story... :-)
the rest of the story is hard to access but evidently the mother died in Utah and THEY are the ones who screwed up. This according to the NM funeral home
Only in New Mexico... I wonder if her name was Abby?
Well, at least it was properly labeled.
I wonder what the funeral home workers sounded like as they collected and bagged her stuff...
One wedding ring... CHECK!
Two hair Barrettes... CHECK!
One gold necklace... CHECK!
One pair of eyeglasses... CHECK!
One Brain... CHE... UHHHHHH... are you SURE about that boss?
It’s right here on the “Personal Effects Checklist”. Put in the bag, son.
Yessir Boss! One Brain... CHECK!
... but this funeral home needs to be sued until it hurts.
I don't know why that should be the case. The funeral home seems to have nothing to do with separating the brain from the body (since it happened out of state) and all they did was pass a bag along to the family which was mailed to the family through the funeral home. It wasn't something that was sent with the body or even labeled or clearly known what the contents of the bag were. It was inside something else.
I would say that since it was an accident in Utah, that the funeral home was passing along whatever "personal effects" that were gathered up at the scene of the accident and passed them along to the family -- and that's about all that happened.
Anyway, that's the way I read the story...
“what huge knockers she had.”
Anyone remeber him? he would be proud. be kinda cool to have a loved ones brain in a glass jar on the mantlepiece with little wires into it, with little lights blinking on the outside. course you gotta luv Zacherley
I wonder what the funeral home workers sounded like as they collected and bagged her stuff...
You would probably have to check in the state of Utah, since that appears to be where it all was bagged up. Now, maybe someone in Utah did exactly that -- but it looks pretty clear to me that the New Mexico funeral home only passed on to the family what was mailed to the family from Utah...
I knew somebody was going to be thinking this way!
Only in New Mexico... I wonder if her name was Abby?
You should probably say, "Only in Utah" since that's where it all happened... LOL...
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