| Huge Lawsuit Could Change Handling of the Dead
They had not objected to an autopsy to learn the cause of their son's death after his car swerved into a retention pond in December 2001, and do not contend that the coroner improperly conducted the autopsy. But they did not know what medical examiners say is common: that brain examinations can take time, because the gelatinous matter must sometimes be fixed in a solution for two weeks before a sample can be taken. Remains returned to the family often do not contain all of the organs. So the Albrechts buried their son, and the coroner later disposed of his brain after determining that Christopher had suffered a seizure, lost control of the car and drowned in the pond. U.S. District Judge Susan J. Dlott said last spring that before she could rule on whether the class-action lawsuit could go forward, she wanted the Ohio Supreme Court to determine whether the next of kin have a "protected right" under Ohio law to "the decedent's tissues, organs, blood or other body parts that have been removed and retained" by a coroner.
Gordon B. Hinckley, Mormon Leader, Is Dead at 97
The church, which announced his death on its Web site, said a successor to Mr. Hinckley was not expected to be chosen until after his funeral. Mr. Hinckley spent 46 years in the church's top leadership ranks, 12 of those as its 15th president. He was the oldest president in the church's history. In a faith that is relatively young, founded in 1830, Mr. Hinckley's impact was formative. He traveled to 60 countries and dedicated 95 of the church's 124 temples, some on sites that he himself had surveyed and selected. Wherever he went, he drew large crowds of church members waving white handkerchiefs, a sign of affection that began in Chile and spread. With his buoyant personality and affinity for public relations, Mr. Hinckley made Mormonism more familiar to the public and more accepted in the Christian fold.
Netlets for Monday, Jan. 28
Assuming there is in fact a spare $145 billion in cash lying around to return to American taxpayers, I've got to wonder why it was taken from us in the first place. DAVID PETERSON, APPLE VALLEY He started out as 'Big K' Great story on Kevin Kling (Star Tribune, Jan. 20). He's come a long way from the first film he and my son produced in Osseo High School, which they did as a class project. Kevin starred as "Big K" -- a diminutive version of Jimmy Cagney, replete with oversized raincoat and wide-brim hat; a very terrifying gangster indeed. They even filmed a police chase and had an old car which they shot going over a precipice in the Osseo gravel pits as part of the action. One of his stories, the infamous high school band trip to Milwaukee, also described his having to march behind "big Mike M." -- another of my boys.
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