TN TN - MCEWEN, human heart found in salt pile - adult male - 16 Dec 2022

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DFWNF said:
Yes, not relevant with a heart imo, but I was told many years ago by a doctor with amputations that they will save body parts for a burial of a whole body when someone eventually passes away, I was told Jewish faith requires it. Jme.
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The following links are not for the squeamish.

www.atlasobscura.com

What It's Like to Hold Your Own Heart

Baylor University Medical Center in Texas is encouraging transplant patients to meet their former organs.
www.atlasobscura.com www.atlasobscura.com

And a picture of one of the first transplantees, looking at his own heart. Sadly, he died just a few weeks after the picture was taken.

 
There was a story from my area a couple years ago where someone thought they found a human femur at a landfill.

The ME knew immediately that it was a medical replica.

However, this thing wasn't.
 
sasha17 said:
This could be an interesting case for @othram.
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I hadn't even thought of this. Good idea.

A while back, my mother told me about a human heart being found in a cargo hold in a passenger plane at the local airport, and I assumed the package had somehow been opened and it had fallen out. Nope, it was being used for research and someone forgot to unload it. (D'oh!) Organs for transplant are delivered via a chartered plane, if time and distance demands that they be flown.
 
airportwoman said:
I hadn't even thought of this. Good idea.

A while back, my mother told me about a human heart being found in a cargo hold in a passenger plane at the local airport, and I assumed the package had somehow been opened and it had fallen out. Nope, it was being used for research and someone forgot to unload it. (D'oh!) Organs for transplant are delivered via a chartered plane, if time and distance demands that they be flown.
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I just pictured a heart with its seat belt on in the window seat.
 
This story was on the news recently. I've linked three different articles. There may be some redundancy in them but each has some different info too. Just makes you wonder if one state prison is doing autopsies and keeping organs to give to a university etc?, maybe other states could be doing the same? I just thought it was interesting and maybe apropos. Still extremely odd and improbably that it would then wind up in a salt pile.

www.usatoday.com

He died in prison. His corpse was returned without a heart. Now his family is suing.

Brandon Dotson's family want to know how he died and why his heart was missing from his body when it was released to them.
www.usatoday.com

www.lex18.com

Heart, brain missing from dead inmates' bodies, family lawsuit claims

Two men who died in Alabama prisons were returned to their families missing organs — one a heart and one a brain, according to a federal lawsuit.
www.lex18.com www.lex18.com

www.cbsnews.com

Alabama prisoners' bodies returned to families with hearts, other organs missing, lawsuit claims

The family of one Alabama prisoner says his body had no heart and another inmate's family alleges his body had no internal organs at all. A lawyer for the first family calls the cases "absolutely part of a pattern."
www.cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com
 
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