I read the headline expecting that it was a simple misunderstanding or clerical error, with limited impact to within 24 hours.
The article is so much worse and the headline buries the lede. I would be horrified. My condolences to the family.
The article is so much worse and the headline buries the lede. I would be horrified. My condolences to the family.
- it's not just that the hospital told her family totally the wrong thing for a day or a year...
- or even negligently cremated or buried her in a pauper's grave...
- but they also mishandled the corpse, which IIUC is a misdemeanor (corpse desecration, which is a felony, might not apply), by shipping her decomposing body to an off-site warehouse morgue.
- and failing to timely issue a death certificate or do an autopsy prevents determining whether there had been medical malpractice associated with her death.