By Jay Syrmopoulos New York, N.Y. – In an extremely unsettling ruling, a New York appeals court has ruled that your family members’ organs can be kept by the medical examiner without having to notify the family of the deceased.
The divisive ruling left the seven-member appeals court divided 5-2, with all justices wanting the state legislature to ultimately decide the issue.
The morbid case ensued after a New York medical examiner, doing a routine autopsy on 17-year-old vehicular accident victim Jesse Shipley, kept the brain of the teenager, only to have it be discovered by classmates on a school field trip two months later.
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