King County Brain Donations
April 5th, 2005 | Published in Broadcast, FOIA | 1 Comment
Chris Halsne of KIRO7-TV in Seattle used Washington’s Open Records Act to uncover a program in which “the King County Medical Examiner’s Office has been harvesting brains from the corpses of mentally ill clients and quietly trading the tissue for money.” The transactions have generated more than $1 million from The Stanley Medical Research Institute, a Maryland company that studies mental disorders. “KIRO Team 7 Investigators contacted a half dozen families, which we confirmed had donated brains via King County. None knew of Stanley. None knew of money changing hands.”
January 10th, 2006 at 9:01 pm (#)
This is disgusting. Our community is still failing to provide enough money to treat and house these citizens but they can be farmed for their brains? Has anyone checked into the causes of death for those persons whose brains are harvested?
It seems like an awful lot of mentally ill are getting shot by police lately, and quite a few are “stepping into traffic”–
it does not take sociopaths long to realize where they can make a buck. We’ve had a problem for years with people stealing our pets to sell them to labs–are these crooks now helping themselves to the brains of our loved ones by seting up situations where the mentally ill person can be murdered and harvested? How far does this evil go? Let’s keep our eyes open and speak up.