The Washington State Supreme Court issued a rare unanimous ruling this morning in a case against the King County Medical Examiner's office. The court ruled that the M.E.'s office was in the wrong when they sold a deceased 21-year-old's brain to a Maryland company. While the 21-year-old was an organ donor, his next of kin was not notified parts of his body would be sold for profit to private researchers. Also, and excuse us if we are wrong, but our assumption about checking the donor box was that our organs would go to a living individual, not a corporation. Shame on the King County M.E. for adding to a family's tragedy and profiting off it.
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