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In arguments to the state’s highest court, the city seeks to overturn a lower-court ruling that requires the city to notify next-of-kin when brains or other organs are removed for autopsies.
The ruling also requires the ME to let the deceased persons’ families wait until the brains can be put back before claiming bodies, or to let them collect the organs later.
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In the past, brainless bodies would be released to unsuspecting families. But now, under the court mandate, the ME must hold the bodies while the family decides what to do.
If the family wants the body intact, the ME must store it for weeks until the organs are ready to be returned. The family can also opt to take the body and collect the organs later, or let the ME dispose of them.
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Before the 2010 ruling, next-of-kin often unwittingly buried loved ones minus some organs. The practice was exposed in 2005, when 17-year-old Jesse Shipley of Staten Island was killed in a car crash.
http://nypost.com/2015/02/15/city-fighting-to-be-able-to-burn-brains-as-medical-waste/
New York Post
By Susan Edelman
February 15, 2015 | 2:08am
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