Hospital immortalized in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' to be torn down 19185
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/07/15/2008-07-15_hospital_immortal...
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by mrwzrd
Thu Jul 17th, 2008 4:50pm
(from bordom.net)
Politicians had been talking for years about the need to replace the hospital, but didn't get serious about it until a group of legislators made a grim discovery during a 2004 tour: the cremated remains of 3,600 mental patients in corroding copper canisters in a storage room. The lawmakers were stunned.
Nobody said anything to anybody, said Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney, who dubbed the chamber the room of lost souls.
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