An article posted on CNN's website entitled, "Parents shocked to learn examiner kept son's brain" was one that really shocked me. The article is about a kid named Jesse Shipley who was a 17 year old boy that died in a car accident. His parents had mourned his death and Jesse was buried, when 2 months later something horrible happened. The high school that Jesse had attended went on a school field trip to the morgue where they found a jar with a brain on it labeled 'Jesse Shipley'. Obviously, these kids were shocked and utterly confounded and when Adre and Korisha Shipley heard the news they were simply horrified. From this incident, there is an ongoing debate on whether the medical examiners should be forced to tell the family if they are keeping any remains of a body after an autopsy. The controversy lies in if you tell the family, the person you tell might be connected with the reason the person died in the first place. It also further upsets a family during such a hard time. Personally, I think that the family needs to know no matter what. Burying your child, loved one or family member is hard enough and when you do so you want to believe that they have all their organs inside them and in tact. Also, figuring out months later that the morgue lied to you just makes the healing process that much harder. The family is suing the city and I hope they get a settlement out of this because I could never image how horrifying this would be.
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