Autopsies can reveal intimate health details. Should they be kept private?

This is where things are really complicated. Ethically, we must think about the desires of the deceased. Did this person want to share this information with relatives?

It should also be noted that the genetic risk factor is often that; Often there is no way to see if a person will have a disease, or the severity of the symptoms. And if the genetic risk is a disease that does not have a treatment or treatment, will the person’s relatives tell them a lot of tension?

A 27 -year -old suffered when he told her a genetic test in 23 years that she “has a chance of 28 % to develop Alzheimer’s late age at the age of 75 and 60 % of the age of 85.”

“I suddenly immersed this information,” was published in the dementia forum. “I can only feel this overwhelming feeling of dread and sadness, which I will never be able to not know this information.”

In their research, Solberg and Ortiz encountered the cases in which individuals who died in car accidents underwent the autopsy of bodies that have detected other cases without symptoms. A man was found in the 1940s who died in such an accident suffering from a genetic disease in the kidneys. A 23 -year -old child with kidney cancer was found.

Ideally, both medical teams and family members should know early what a person wanted – be it anatomy, genetic test or healthy privacy. Advanced directions allow people to clarify their desires for the end of life care. But only about a third of people in the United States completed one. They tend to focus on care before death, not yet.

Solberg and Ortiz believe that they should be expanded. Preparation can determine how people want to share their health information after their death. “Talking about death is difficult,” says Solburg. “For doctors, for patients, for families – it can be uncomfortable.” But it is important.

On March 17, a judge in New Mexico granted a request from Hackman’s actor to close police photos and Bodycam clips as well as Hackman and Arakawa medical records. The medical investigator is temporarily restricted to disclosure … corpse dissection reports and/or death investigation reports for Master and Mrs. Hakman, “according to what I mentioned. Delivery date.

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