8 People Who Lived With Their Dead Relatives For Years

The death of a loved one is always a tragedy, sometimes so strong that a person is not able to come to terms with it. People who are unable to part with dead relatives literally continue to live with them. Here are eight such stories.

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1The Man Who Spent Every Day At His Wife's Grave For 20 Years

When Rocky Abalsamo's wife died in 1993, a part of him died with her. In sorrow and longing, Rocky spent 20 years every day at her grave in St. Joseph's cemetery in Roxbury. He hardly ate or drank while he was there, and came to the grave in spite of the cold or bad weather.

On January 22, 2013, Rocky died at Stonehenge Health Center in Roxbury after a long illness, at the time of his death he was 97 years old. He was buried in the same cemetery as his wife Julia. Their graves are very close - Rocky does not part with her even after his death.

2. A Vietnamese man sleeps in the same bed with his dead wife.

In 2009, Le Van, a Vietnamese citizen, hit all the local newspapers: it became known that he had slept in the same bed with his dead wife for five years. Two years later, reporters from the newspaper Nguoi Lao Dong contacted Le Van again, and he confirmed that he continued to sleep next to the body of his beloved. The government can't do anything about it, of course.

Le Van sleeps in the same bed as a plaster statue containing the remains of his late wife. During the funeral, the man realized that he could not live without his beloved, so he dug up the grave, removed the remains from there, placed them in a plaster statue and continues to share a bed with her.

The 57-year-old Vietnamese explains that by doing so he hopes to increase the chances of their reunion in the next life.

3. Georgian woman takes care of her son, who died 18 years ago

Joni Bakaradze died 18 years ago when he was 22 years old. But instead of burying him in the cemetery, the family decided to keep the body intact so that the two-year-old son could someday see his father's face.

For the first four years after Joni's death, his mother Tsiuri Kvaratskhelia used embalming fluid to preserve Joni's body, but then she had a dream in which someone told her to use vodka instead. So she did: Tsiuri made a vodka poultice every night to prevent her body from turning black and starting to decompose.

For the first ten years after her son's death, Tsiuri dressed him up for every birthday. But the older she got, the more difficult it was for her to take care of her son in the way she used to. She says that the lack of care quickly became noticeable and her son's face turned black, but as soon as she used her alcohol tincture again, the face turned white again.

Currently, Joni's body is kept in a wooden coffin with a window in front of her face. Tsiuri says her grandson, now 20, saw his father's preserved body and believes his grandmother made the right decision.

Source 4An Argentine widow sleeps in her late husband's mausoleum to keep him company.

A widow from Argentina named Adriana Villarreal sleeps in the small mausoleum where her husband is buried so that he won't get bored. A 43-year-old widow from Buenos Aires came to the attention of the media in 2012 when she admitted that she spends several nights a year in this mausoleum.

Dos de Mayo Police Commissioner Gustavo Braganza said his colleagues decided to take a look at the San Lazaro Cemetery as several people complained that loud music was playing there. They knocked on the door of the mausoleum, and the door was opened by Adriana Villarreal in pajamas. It was evident that she lived for some time next to the coffin and the embalmed body.

The police examined the tomb: it turned out that the woman even equipped the mausoleum - she brought a bed, a radio, a computer with Internet access, and even a small stove.

Adriana's husband, Sergio Yede, committed suicide in 2010, when he was 28 years old. Adriana built a mausoleum for him with the money he saved to buy a house.

Source 5The widow slept with her husband's decaying body for a year after his death.

A woman slept with her husband's decomposing body for a year, until the horrifying fact came to the attention of the authorities in November 2013.

Marcel H., 79, from Liege, Belgium, died in November 2012 from an asthma attack. The grief of the wife was so strong that she did not find the strength to announce the death of her husband and continued to sleep with the body in the same bed until the authorities intervened.

They came to the widow only because the owner of the apartment complained about the evasion of this family from paying rent for a year. The body was not mummified, but, surprisingly, the neighbors never complained about an unpleasant smell.

6 Man Lived With Mother's Mummified Body For Over Ten Years And It Was Only Discovered When He Was Found Dead

Claudio Alfieri, 58, was found lying in a chair in his Buenos Aires apartment next to the woman's remains. Her body was wrapped in plastic bags, she had slippers on her feet, and her body was sitting on a chair at the kitchen table.

Police and firefighters broke into the apartment after neighbors complained about the disgusting smell. Forensic experts and neighbors identified the woman as Claudio's mother, Margherita Aimer de Alfieri. Neighbors said that the last time they saw this woman alive was ten years ago, when she was 90 years old, but her son continued to claim that she was alive and well. An autopsy showed that both mother and son died of natural causes.

7. Husband kept his wife's death a secret for 35 days and treated her like she was alive.

A contractor spent 35 days going to work and living a normal life while the body of his 42-year-old wife decomposed in the bedroom of their two-story home in Damai Impan, Malaysia.

When family friends asked about her, her husband answered vaguely, never giving any reason to think anything was wrong. But his wife, Lim Ah Tee, died on September 2, 2013 after complaining of chest pain.

According to police, their 16-year-old son knew his mother had died but gave his father time to come to terms with the reality of her death. The heartbroken man reported the death of his wife to the police only when it became impossible to bear the stench.

The police were shocked - they found the body on the bed, clean and in fresh clothes - this indicated that her husband regularly washed and changed her clothes. The room also smelled strongly of perfume, probably her husband spraying it all over the place to cover up the smell of the decomposing body.

SourcePhoto 8The guy hid his father's dead body for five months to get his welfare.

In March 2012, a man was jailed for three years after police found the body of his 54-year-old father, Guy Blackburn, on the bed of his home in Lancashire, UK. The son did not report his father's death for almost five months because he wanted to receive benefits for him.

Christopher Blackburn, 29, lived in the house next to the body, but did not report the death of his father, who died of natural causes. It also turned out that Christopher's ten-year-old daughter lived in the house - she was told that her grandfather was just sleeping in his room.

Blackburn pleaded guilty to denying his father a decent burial from October 31, 2010 to March 22, 2011, and to embezzlement of £1,869, which he took on behalf of his father at the post office. Blackburn also lied to police, saying he spoke with his father in November 2010 and had drinks with him on Christmas Day.