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Litigation

Jun. 7, 2005

Children Sue After Crematory Sells Mom's Body Parts

Eileen Currier's last wish was simple. The 72-year-old woman wanted to be cremated after she died of cancer so that her ashes could be scattered off the coast of Point Loma in San Diego. There, by the old lighthouse, her children, Bradley Currier and Glynnis Hirsch, could go to remember their mother and their father, a sailor whose ashes previously were scattered at sea, Hirsch says.

By Adrianna Khoo
        Eileen Currier's last wish was simple.
        The 72-year-old woman wanted to be cremated after she died of cancer so that her ashes could be scattered off the coast of Point Loma in San Diego. There, by the old lighthouse, her children, Br...

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