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Funeral home worker mortified at body bag discovery – woman was still breathing
The family of Janet Balducci are suing a nursing home which they accuse of negligence and wrongful death after sending her to a funeral home to be embalmed while still breathin
A woman zipped up in a body bag to be embalmed by a funeral home was found alive. Staff at a nursing centre mistakenly declared the 82-year-old dead and wasted no time in shipping her off for burial prep.
Janet Balducci's family are suing Water's Edge Rehabilitation & Nursing Center in Long Island, New York which they accuse of negligence and wrongful death on February 4, 2023.
Peter DeNoto, the Balducci family lawyer, told The New York Post, when the elderly woman arrived at Casimir Funeral Home, she was found to be "still breathing and had a pulse".
It wasn't for another day once Janet was rushed to a hospital, that she was actually dead. Her fuming sons Robert and Joseph Balducci have taken their lawsuit of the nursing home to Suffolk County Supreme Court.
Commenting on the case, DeNoto said: "Did the nurse follow the criteria for determining whether somebody is dead and did a doctor confirm what the nurse found? There really is no excuse for putting a live person in a body bag and sending them to a facility for embalming.
"There was nobody there advocating for her as an elderly person. She was definitely at the end stages of her life, unfortunately. That happens to all of us. But here, it seems that it was too easy to say, 'She is not alive anymore let’s send her to a facility.'"
Janet had lived at Water's Edge for just a few months several weeks after suffering a fall in her own home on August 1, 2022.
DeNoto said: "It really is a sad case. The end game is to send a message that you have to take your job seriously and you have to treat human beings with dignity and respect."
Sons Robert and Joseph claim the wrongful death caused them "genuine mental and/or emotional distress" as a result of "extreme and outrageous conduct."
They also allege staff did nothing to help their mother's deep vein thrombosis.
The New York State Attorney General's Office and Suffolk County police were notified of the incident.
The Daily Star has contacted Water's Edge Rehabilitation & Nursing Center for a comment.
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The family of Janet Balducci are suing a nursing home which they accuse of negligence and wrongful death after sending her to a funeral home to be embalmed while still breathin
A woman zipped up in a body bag to be embalmed by a funeral home was found alive. Staff at a nursing centre mistakenly declared the 82-year-old dead and wasted no time in shipping her off for burial prep.
Janet Balducci's family are suing Water's Edge Rehabilitation & Nursing Center in Long Island, New York which they accuse of negligence and wrongful death on February 4, 2023.
Peter DeNoto, the Balducci family lawyer, told The New York Post, when the elderly woman arrived at Casimir Funeral Home, she was found to be "still breathing and had a pulse".
It wasn't for another day once Janet was rushed to a hospital, that she was actually dead. Her fuming sons Robert and Joseph Balducci have taken their lawsuit of the nursing home to Suffolk County Supreme Court.
Commenting on the case, DeNoto said: "Did the nurse follow the criteria for determining whether somebody is dead and did a doctor confirm what the nurse found? There really is no excuse for putting a live person in a body bag and sending them to a facility for embalming.
"There was nobody there advocating for her as an elderly person. She was definitely at the end stages of her life, unfortunately. That happens to all of us. But here, it seems that it was too easy to say, 'She is not alive anymore let’s send her to a facility.'"
Janet had lived at Water's Edge for just a few months several weeks after suffering a fall in her own home on August 1, 2022.
DeNoto said: "It really is a sad case. The end game is to send a message that you have to take your job seriously and you have to treat human beings with dignity and respect."
Sons Robert and Joseph claim the wrongful death caused them "genuine mental and/or emotional distress" as a result of "extreme and outrageous conduct."
They also allege staff did nothing to help their mother's deep vein thrombosis.
The New York State Attorney General's Office and Suffolk County police were notified of the incident.
The Daily Star has contacted Water's Edge Rehabilitation & Nursing Center for a comment.
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