<p>the whole story is strange, and me, I want every part of my body donated for the use of others, and find it kind of selfish to want to hold on to everything after I am gone, religious beliefs aside, but this part just is odd:</p>
<p>…At the Daly City house where Picon and her husband, Joseph, raised their son, who died in October, and their daughter, Raquel, 21, a three-tiered glass case holds mementos of Nicholas: his black baseball cap, his Jimi Hendrix tie and photos of him with his guitar and with his family. (this is not odd, but the following, eww)</p>
<p>The couple keeps his heart in a polished, inlaid wooden box in their bedroom…</p>
<p>Well, there’s a little more to it than that. It’s not as if the Picons chose to bury their son but keep his heart in their bedroom. They were actually deprived of burying him ‘whole’. However, I do hope that they bury the heart with the rest of him, or something else other than in a box under the bed. That is very strange.</p>
<p>I certainly hope this law is changed - everyone should have the right to choose and in this case to choose because they have been given that right and/or opportunity. I feel for this mother. The most difficult thing I have ever had to do was to ask a family about organ donation - and have to explain it to a grieving family member.</p>
<p>In some ways tho this is no different than having a loved ones ashes in a home - tho for this mother - and her son - that was not their wishes. I certainly hope she has the opportunity for closure in this. I admire her for bringing this front and center - hopefully it won’t happen to another parent.</p>