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DearAbby

(12,461 posts) Wed Mar 28, 2012, 03:26 PM Mar 2012

Hospital sends woman home with her dead baby in a cooler

A Chattanooga, Tennessee woman mourning the loss of her child over the weekend says the hospital put her baby's body in a cooler and sent her home.
Melvina Brown gave birth Sunday at Chattanooga's Erlanger Medical Center.
Just hours later, believing she had no other choice, Brown went home with her baby's body in a Styrofoam cooler.
She says she asked the hospital if they could keep the baby while she decided what to do, but says there was so much confusion, she just signed the papers.

http://www.thegrio.com/news/hospital-sends-woman-home-with-her-dead-baby-in-styrofoam-cooler.php

God forgive us.

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Hospital sends woman home with her dead baby in a cooler (Original Post) DearAbby Mar 2012 OP

Isn't that what the Santorum's did? n/m El Supremo Mar 2012 #1

Yes it is. N/T GopperStopper2680 Mar 2012 #3

Yes it is but holy Rick wanted to spend time with the baby and he could afford to bury it. southernyankeebelle Mar 2012 #4

Didn't the Duggars do something similar? Blue_Tires Mar 2012 #2

She could have easily have donated the baby to science... YellowRubberDuckie Mar 2012 #5

Pretty grisly.. SoCalDem Mar 2012 #6

El Supremo

(20,365 posts)

1. Isn't that what the Santorum's did? n/m

Reply to DearAbby (Original post)

Wed Mar 28, 2012, 03:27 PM

Mar 2012

GopperStopper2680

(397 posts)

3. Yes it is. N/T

Reply to El Supremo (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 28, 2012, 03:31 PM

Mar 2012

southernyankeebelle

(11,304 posts)

4. Yes it is but holy Rick wanted to spend time with the baby and he could afford to bury it.

Reply to GopperStopper2680 (Reply #3)

Wed Mar 28, 2012, 04:03 PM

Mar 2012

On the other hand this woman couldn't afford to bury it.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)

2. Didn't the Duggars do something similar?

Reply to DearAbby (Original post)

Wed Mar 28, 2012, 03:28 PM

Mar 2012

YellowRubberDuckie

(19,736 posts)

5. She could have easily have donated the baby to science...

Reply to DearAbby (Original post)

Wed Mar 28, 2012, 04:58 PM

Mar 2012

...and have received ashes back at a later time. I would have done it and I could afford to bury my baby. It's just the fact that they were so heartless about it that freaks me out. I mean, at least the baby wouldn't have died in vain and something good would have come out of the whole thing.

SoCalDem

(103,856 posts)

6. Pretty grisly..

Reply to DearAbby (Original post)

Wed Mar 28, 2012, 05:09 PM

Mar 2012

I always thought that a body could only leave a hospital via the coroner or a funeral home..

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