Maine’s Portland Press-Herald updates its long series on the relatively large number of brains taken from deceased persons by medical examiners in Maine. Surprisingly, people don’t like it when brains are removed from their dead relatives without consent!

“I think the medical culture historically has been one that says, ‘We don’t have to tell patients everything that we’re doing. We’re doing things to benefit parents and families, and they don’t need to know everything,’ ” said Karen Maschke of Hastings Center … The (new) notion is really informed decision-making, and people may decide to say ‘no.’ “