Living with dead people

[snopes]

A German left his dead mother seated in her favorite armchair at their shared home for two years because he could not face organizing a funeral.

http://today.reuters.com/news/articl...ANY-CORPSE.xml

Sounds like a plot for a movie. Did he own a motel by any chance?

The fact that he just sort of left her there is disturbing as it is... But I just have to wonder how he dealt with that smell?

[snopes]

A Viennese woman lived with the mummified remains of her dead aunt for more than a year.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070905/D8RFJ4301.html

[bthyb]

So this is a European thing?

[hambubba]

While not in the same league as a full-bodied dried apparition, we called my SIL's ex-husband last week (9 years divorced) to see if he could locate the ashes of MIL and a brother that were left in his attic.

He didn't know they were there.

LOL.

[Lainie]

Originally Posted by bthyb

So this is a European thing?

Not exclusively.From an article about the "Spook house shooting" in a Columbus suburb last year:

The Davis family's history with police includes an account from the 1980s of them living with the body of Allen Davis' grandmother for two days for fear the woman might wake up and be scared.

[bthyb]

Originally Posted by Lainie

Not exclusively.From an article about the "Spook house shooting" in a Columbus suburb last year:

Yes, but that was 2 days. The cases above are a year and two years. Big difference.

[Eddylizard]

Originally Posted by kellyannie

The fact that he just sort of left her there is disturbing as it is... But I just have to wonder how he dealt with that smell?

Shake 'n Vac?

"#I did the shake and vac, then put my mum's head back...#"

[Lainie]

Originally Posted by bthyb

Yes, but that was 2 days. The cases above are a year and two years. Big difference.

I don't have a cite, but I've definitely heard of cases in the US that go on for some time.

Originally Posted by hambubba

While not in the same league as a full-bodied dried apparition, we called my SIL's ex-husband last week (9 years divorced) to see if he could locate the ashes of MIL and a brother that were left in his attic.

He didn't know they were there.

LOL.

I still have my mother's ashes in my walk in closet in my bedroom, and she passed 20 years ago....does that make me wierd?