Shame on the school for keeping the body for so long without even trying to preserve it... and after rejecting it too! Most coroners don't keep bodies in their offices for that long without chilling them and replacing the blood with preservatives to keep the bacteria at bay. Heck, I even bet the U.S. prison system sends dead prisoners back to their families sooner than that, and with their bodies preserved too.
Shame on them, also, for (more than likely) disadvantaging students by not teaching them how to deal with fat bodies. Let's just hope every body that lands on these students' surgery/autopsy tables is thin as a twig, if the school isn't going to do anything about their curriculum's flaws.
He did donate his body to science and everybody now knows that a 300+ lbs. man has a good chance of dying early. If he only helps one person, then his final wish has been achieved.
The school should have returned the body sooner, but then we don't know about all the red tape. I suspect the lawsuit will be dismissed.
As for the lawsuit of $2 million that is a bit over the top. I do think they should have to pay for funeral / cremation expenses since they took so long to return the body.
That says it all right there... why should they take on the costs associated with a body they can't really use?
It wont be long before doctors are refusing to treat fat people because it's too hard!
Having said all that, what on earth is a lawsuit going to do? The man is dead, and can't benefit financially from this slight... who is going to make money off of this?
>It wont be long before doctors are refusing to treat fat people because it's too hard!
Do you really, actually hold that opinion? Or were you being facetious? >.>
How long did it take them to decide they didn't want the body? If they didn't want it, why didn't they put it in the cooler to help preserve the body?
I mean 13 days and then handing the body back to the family with only one option...that's a little more than foul.
there's a business to be in.
As it turns out, he did end up contributing to science. They discovered that a tub of lard will burn for twice as long as a stack of used tires of the same size. Plus, the tires don't smell as bad.
My friend's husand's body had its head used at one school and the body at another. The pieces weren't reunited until they arrived at the crematorium.
Why didn't previous generations have as many glandular problems as today and why are some countries far less obese than us. Are glandular probs an American thing?
Okay so, you had someone eat less and and lose weight. What do you say to someone who eats more than they should and doesn't even gain an ounce because of his metabolism?