Frivolous cadaver suit
If you donated your body to a university for scientific purposes, would you really want your family to sue the university when someone stole and sold your dead body? That's what happened at UCLA, a couple days after two guys were arrested for stealing cadavers and selling them.Of course, it's wrong. Of course, security obviously lapsed at the university. But does this really warrant a class-action lawsuit? What on earth will the families get? The bodies will still be just as dead as they were before. I know the purpose of a class-action lawsuit is to teach the wrong-doer a lesson so such a thing doesn't happen again. But if I donated my body to a university, the last thing I'd want would be for my family to turn around and file a lawsuit. In essence, my donation would actually make the university lose money.
Why do so many people in this country file so many stupid lawsuits? Most of the suits are just games run by the lawyers who care only about making money.
Posted by Layla at 9:07 AM, March 09, 2004
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