Family outraged after Ont. girl buried without brain
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/...psy-brain.html
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The family should have been informed though. Who would want bury their child's brain (or any of their chil's body parts) after they have buried their child. ..no matter what your religious beliefs are. |
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Yeah, the family should have been notified.
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Absolutely the family should have been notified. That's quite a violation. Awful.
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While I understand the family's distress, based upon their religious beliefs, I can't blame the coroner's office. Having worked in the field for a short time, I know that the brain is almost always removed during an autopsy, and is not returned to the cranium. Perhaps there should be a new standard put in place to respect the family's religious beliefs on this issue.
Whatever the case, the coroner's office is fully in their rights in keeping the brain for further testing. Or at least they would be in the U.S. (I don't know the differences in Canada's laws) |
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Shame...even though, I wouldn't really mind if I was given notification, as it's not really against any of my beliefs (I would have accepted the cremation, if, with my beliefs, I was in her situation).
Still, though, it's pretty awful that they will have to exhume the body and rebury the girl. |
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I think to hold the body until all the parts can be re-united, is the right thing to do.
You don't go handing people their child's brain, after they've been buried. That's like something out of a horror film. |
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Well, I think the problem is, some brains are kept for a rather long time after death. To wait that long to bury a person would not only be impractical, but also against their religion (I think). That is usually in the case of legal action being taken, so they may be alright in this circumstance, but the problem would still occur in other situations...
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I'll have to plead ignorance to this Dron Cah, why can't the brain be put back in afterwards?
My religious beliefs don't really play into the whole 'what you're buried with' scenario. More along the lines of, 'this is my child, I'd like them to be whole' scenario. |
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From my understanding, Gangrell, the brain is kept for some time afterwards to verify information later on, particularly in the case of a trial. If a case goes to trial, both the prosecution and defense would want their experts to have access to both the initial autopsy and toxicology results, and may also require tissue samples to test themselves.
Mistakes can happen in the first run of things, as well, so those tissues make possible a second test. There may be other reasons, but those are the ones I'm aware of. |
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