In case anyone did not hear of this, apparently Albert Einstein had without his permission his brain taken away after death and that he who committed that suffered no punishment. If even on a question of organ transplant the prior agreement of the dead person is seriously considered, any excuse of having that done to try to explain the genius of the man justifies nothing for such a violation of dignity. They even say that he said near his death that it is time to go and he was going to do it with dignity, but that apparently still was not enough to prevent an act as disrespectful as having his brain taken away and sliced afterwards. And no matter how much he did not want to be idolized above the human level that does not mean he accepted for himself the other end of that in being treated like an object. Some suggest that he could have approved this because he once accepted to have that part of the body x-rayed or something of that sort for the same purpose. Not only that is not a substitute for his prior agreement, it even does not provide good probability for it. And by the way, although not having an opportunity to ask his permission for that when he was alive would have not made what happened acceptable, it seems like there was an opportunity to do that. I also read somewhere what sounded to me like trying to justify with claiming less developed moral or ethical standards about this issue at that time doing that or that no prosecution or charges was brought here, as if we are talking about human frozen eggs or something that recent in medical development. The question of what right one can have on the body of a dead person is as old as the anatomy branch of medicine.
As bad as that would have been had it been done by somebody who was just seeking to take away the brain of any dead person but by chance it happened to Einstein, its being a reaction to the achievements and contributions he had made adds significantly to the injury.