'Cuckoo's Nest' hospital seeks takers for remains

[Joanne98]

Source: AP

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Don Whetsell buried his grandfather last year, finally laying him to rest 60 years after his death.

The final resting place next to his wife was far better than the previous one: on a shelf with the neglected remains of 3,500 others in a storage area dubbed the "room of forgotten souls."

Whetsell is one of 120 people to claim the remains of loved ones who had been left behind at Oregon's state mental hospital, some of them in corroding copper canisters that had fused together.

Hospital officials are hoping a new online list will help them reunite living relatives with the forgotten patients and prison inmates who died at Oregon State Hospital between 1914 and the 1970s.



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[hlthe2b]

1. Oh, that is tragic...I hope they are at peace.

[Earth_First]

2. How traumatizing to these individuals and their families...

Unfortunately, I feel that alot of these lost souls will remain just that.

[xchrom]

3. what a heart breaking story. nt