Here's your Mom's stuff...and her brain.

[Undeniable Truth]

Two different funeral homes are pointing the blame finger at each other for a royal fuck up involving the handling of the remains of a woman who died in an auto accident last September.

Her family, after receiving a bag of her belongings, noticed a rank smell coming from the bag and opened it up to find the woman's brain thrown in with the personal effects. The family has subsequently filed suit against both a funeral home in Utah where she died and the funeral home in New Mexico that released her property. The suit also names the shipping company that transported the belongings from state to state.

"Rather than try to reinsert the brain into a damaged head, it is common practice to ship it inside a bag," he said. "If we put it back in (the head), it could have been a soggy, leaky mess."

Johnson also said when someone has died in a violent crash, there's usually blood "and who knows what" on clothing or other items, so his employees typically sit down with relatives of the victim and encourage them to let the funeral home discard the bag rather than accept it.

He also denied that the Utah funeral home combined the brain and personal items in a single bag.

"This is just a sad tragedy," plaintiffs attorney Richard Valle said Wednesday. "This almost feels like something you'd read about in a Stephen King book."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100107/..._brain_lawsuit

[Jaded]

I went to bed shortly after reading this article yesterday and I had the freakiest dream! I dreamed that the same thing happened to me - except, in my dream, the dog got grandma's brain and was dragging it around the backyard. And I was butt-nekkid, running around after the dog, trying to get the brain so I could clean it off in the dishwasher. At one point in the dream, I thought I had the brain in my hands - but it turned out to be steamed broccoli drenched in cheese and it made me throw up. Since I was sick, I figured I'd just let the dog go ahead and eat/hump/play with grandma's brain.

It was really fucking weird, cause I don't even own a dog.

[Marv]

"Rather than try to reinsert the brain into a damaged head, it is common practice to ship it inside a bag," he said. "If we put it back in (the head), it could have been a soggy, leaky mess."

You can see his point. Much better for it to be a soggy, leaky, stinky mess in the bag of personal belongings than mess up the coffin silk. The stain would never come out, and those things don't come cheap!


Why are they naming the shipping company in the suit?

[Pene784]

This must have been very sad and terrible for the victims family. Unfortunately when I read this story I laughed, loudly and for a long time. I couldn't help it. I just got this little mental movie playing, it goes like this: Loved one dies, everyone is very sad. After several sad days someone in the family notices a foul stench coming from the belongings bag and decides to open it and maybe wash or get rid of the clothes. First they take out the shirt then reach in and feel something squishy. They pull out the something squishy and "OMG that is a freakin brain"!!! (Who couldn't recognize a brain, right) The person then calls in other family members to confirm "yup, it's a brain". Then the realization "you don't suppose it is our family member's brain do you"? ...... I know not funny, but......
I have heard that a brain has the consistency of toothpaste after a couple of days of decomp. If that is true wouldn't the brain have been just a pile of mush? Okay I am done being weird and morbid today.

[carolinablue]

well, what do the fools do with the internal organs? why didn't they just put the brain with all the other stuff? idiots.

[Pene784]

Why are they naming the shipping company in the suit?

They are naming the shipping company because when people sue they like to spread their net far and wide to be sure they will be getting money from someone. Or money from lots of someones.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

You'd have to know my family but after the initial gross out, we'd laugh and retell the story for generations.

[crickett]

It's not the shipping companies fault. But the funeral homes should be ashamed of themselves...adding to the families grief at a time of tragedy...just a little attention to detail during their time of grief would have been in order.