Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] amazing true story

[Rick <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

While a lawsuit wouldn't surprise me, I'd say you'd need to be some kind 
of mentally challenged to point at the professional medical examiner as 
being at fault when the parents had been sitting at her bedside for 
however long and didn't make the identification.

Rick

Brent Deterding wrote:
> Yep - disturbing. The CNN article I read said that the girls looked a 
> lot alike and that at the accident scene the girls were identified by 
> friends and the coroner never checked further. I'm unsure what standard 
> procedure is, but trusting the friends ID seems pretty plausible to me. 
> I was glad to see the families approach this with sadness, but 
> understanding. It was an honest and tragic mistake, but I think the 
> families should be honest that their grief is from what happened, not 
> the human error of the coroner. I hope that is how I would approach it 
> in the same situation.
>
> I'd be really disheartened to see a lawsuit out of a case like this. 
> Would you sue?
>
> -- Brent
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to suffer and die.
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