My mom.lassed away in a hospital at 1130 sept. 1st 2017.
About 2 hours after she died, but certainly less than 3 hours after, I got a phome call from a man representing a body donation firm that was a “non-profit.”
I told him “no” and that I was not ready to make a decision.
He gave me a polite hard sell...said no paperwork was needed and they could do it (authorize the harvesting of body parts for research) all over the phone.
My sister did a quick internet search if the company which turned up the fact that they had both a non-profit and a for profit under the same name.
I told him my final answer was “no” because we didn’t want mom being “partrd out” for someone else’s profit.
He pushed back until I said we knew they had a for profit business and asked that he “respect the family’s wishes.”
My experience and this story leads me to believe that there is some crazy stuff going on with dead bodies and “research” in our country.
I’m sorry to hear about your Mom, and doubly sorry to hear about that company’s hard sell one of the worst days of your life. How heartless.
Good on ya for standing your ground.
I’d have been less diplomatic:
“A Family member dies, and you have the audacity to say ‘Come up with a body.’ Pardon my French, but YOU, Sir, are an A$$H@LE!”
H/T “Ferris Bueller...”
yep
The law in this state is that in hospital deaths the organ donation rep needs to be notified within one hour, so they can pressure the family.
Hang up on them.
I suspect the hospital gets a cut.