WholeLottaRosie
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An aside......a poster mentioned the book Stiff....the other day. I can't recall who it was, but I downloaded it to Kindle and am half way through it.
Just facinating reading.....here is one of the most touching parts so far..
One young womans tribute describes unwrapping her cadavers hands and being brought up short by the realization that the nails were painted pink. The pictures in the anatomy atlas did not show nail polish, she wrote. Did you choose the color? Did you think that I would see it? I wanted to tell you about the inside of your hands . I want you to know you are always there when I see patients. When I palpate an abdomen, yours are the organs I imagine. When I listen to a heart, I recall holding your heart.
Roach, Mary (2004). Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (p. 37). W. W. Norton & Company. Kindle Edition.
In a way... I kind of see Caylee like this student viewed her training cadaver... A person that remains with you in many ways...one that reminds you of the sanctity of life.
Caylee will live on through the future cases argued for other children. Her case touched so many LE and other related professionals and has impacted how searches, recovery, and prosecution is handled.
Well said, SOTS. I agree, and hope one way Caylee is memorialized is by legislators in FL (and other states) passing some laws limiting payment to parents and other relatives of missing children for pictures, etc. That rules are changed about anyone involved talking to media - to make gag orders automatic say, and that either side will have to argue to lift them. Or automatic gag orders on any attorney who is leaves a case, talking to media until after case is totally done (this means after verdict and any appeals, etc.)
Just some thoughts I have been having.