Milton Weinstein

Milton Weinstein, a married father with a fear of dying alone, there was no burial at all for two years after his death at 67. A typographer in his day, he had worked in advertising for Sears, Roebuck & Company. But he lost his career to technology and his vision to diabetes; his wife’s mental problems drove their children away. Though she was at his side when he died in a Bronx nursing home, she had no say over what happened to his remains — and no idea that his body would be used as a cadaver in a medical school and then shoveled into a mass grave on Hart Island.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/15/nyregion/new-york-mass-graves-hart-island.html

The New York Times:

One of the cases discovered by The Times concerned Milton Weinstein, a disabled Jewish typographer whose mentally ill widow was given no say over what would happen to his body after he died in a Bronx nursing home at age 67. His corpse was swiftly passed from a city morgue to a medical school it was still serving as a cadaver two years later when his long-estranged sons finally learned that he was dead and tried to find out where he was buried.

Bill Would Require Relatives’ Consent for Schools to Use Cadavers

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/27/nyregion/new-yorks-written-consent-bill-would-tighten-use-of-bodies-for-teaching.html