Coroner throws decedent's brain in the trash
Boston Globe |
"Arthur Robert McLean, 38, died in his bed on Christmas Day in 2000 after a life plagued by depression... McLean's remains were sent to a funeral home and cremated. Several months later... a pathologist said her brother's brain was still at the office undergoing further testing. 'We didn't even know it was gone,' she said... eight months later, family members checked with the funeral home and learned the brain still had not been returned. At that point, Barbara Faherty of the district attorney's office, who served as the liaison, called the medical examiner and told the family it had been discarded... When she heard the news that the state had thrown away his brain, 'I started crying,' Damon said. 'I don't feel my brother's resting in peace now. I feel like I have a hole in my heart now, because my brother's not buried with his brain.'" |
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