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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Erin Keller

A mourning father thought he was collecting his son’s clothes from the mortuary. The bag actually contained a human brain, lawsuit says

A grieving California family filed a lawsuit against a San Jose funeral home and its service director, alleging a shocking mishandling of human remains that turned their mourning into further trauma.

According to the lawsuit, first reported by ABC 7, a funeral director at the Lima Family Erickson Memorial Chapel handed a father a bag he believed contained his late son’s clothing. It in fact held part of his son’s brain.

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