Morgan Absher

There was also a small metal plate on the inside lid that I didn't notice in the store.

Yeah.

Like it has a name and two dates on it.

Yeah.

So yeah, I bought a person.

Yeah.

I listed it anyways and dumped the bag into a Tupperware container and listed the box on eBay and it sold within a day.

About a week later, I get a message on eBay from someone asking if the box had anything inside of it when I bought it.

I said no because I panicked and I'm a bad person.

They sent a second message that was very long and very emotional.

explaining that their mother passed last year, and somehow her ashes ended up at Goodwill after a family dispute, and they've been searching for them for months.

They described the box in perfect detail, including a small scratch on the bottom left corner.

So now I have a dead woman's ashes in a glass Tupperware container in my garage, and her grieving daughter is messaging me on eBay.

And I already told her the box was empty, and I sold the box to someone in Ohio.

I looked into whether Goodwill is liable for selling human remains, and the answer appears to be complicated, and also nobody has tested this in court, which is not comforting.

My questions are, one, do I come clean to the daughter?

Two, how do I explain that her mother is in a Tupperware container now?

Three, is there a way to get the box back from Ohio without explaining why?

Four, can Goodwill ban you?

Because I still need to go there on Saturdays.