The evidence adduced at this trial on the issue of damages established that after informing plaintiff that her 51-year-old son had died and after two of plaintiffs other children identified the decedent's body at the office of the medical examiner, defendant improperly released the body of the decedent to a funeral home in Pennsylvania, where he was ultimately buried. Several days later, the decedent's body was exhumed and returned to New York, where, because of the passage of time, cremation of the body was required. Under these circumstances, the award of $800,000 deviates materially from what is reasonable compensation to the extent indicated ( see Duffy v City of New York, 178 AD2d 370, lv denied 81 NY2d 702; see also Emeagwali v Brooklyn Hosp. Ctr, 60 AD3d 891).