Widow Sleeps With Dead Husband's Decomposing Corpse For A Year After His Death
 

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A woman had been sleeping next to her dead husband's decomposed corpse for one year until authorities made the grisly discovery this week.

Apparently, 79-year-old "Marcel H." from Liege, Belgium, died back in November 2012 of an asthma attack, according to Carters News Agency. His wife was so upset that she failed to report the death and continued to sleep with the body until Belgian authorities made the bizarre finding on Tuesday, Nov. 19.

They were led to the apartment because the landlord claimed the couple hadn't paid their rent since last year. Neighbors never reported a bad smell. The body had mummified.

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES BELOW

"A body can mummify in a dry, warm environment," Philippe Boxho, pathologist at the Forensic Center of Liege told Carters. "It takes at least a week to reach such a state. In this case the body had rotten [sic] in the bed [and] his internal organs had melted and liquefied. ... Even though the smell of human decay is quite specific, many people equate that smell to the smell of garbage and once the body has become rotten the smell does decrease significantly."

Although this seems impossible, it has happened before.

Dr. Christian Hansch with the Department of Forensic Medicine at the University of Antwerp detailed an instance of mummification back in the 1970s. The body of a man who committed suicide in the cellar of his home in Belgium was found mummified 14 months (or 433 days) after his death. Hansch attributed this to the dry and well-ventilated environment.

"In such circumstances, the decomposition process is slowed down, while both drying-up and autolysis of tissues prevail," he wrote in a report detailing the find.

Last year, a Michigan woman was found living with her boyfriend's mummified body months after his death. She had been cashing in his Social Security checks after he died, but she insisted she kept the body simply because she didn't want to be alone. She was later charged with forgery.

GRAPHIC: These photos show decomposition of a human body.



Let the puns commence.

Old people smell bad by default, she probably didn't even notice.

i wonder how many times that dude got laid after death

Sister.. Faulkner 's works aren't meant to be lived out in real life.

The same as when he was alive.

He's married.

I heard their favorite TV was Bones

She was probably just happy he stayed hard so long!

Must have had one hell of a boner

It seems like it would be hard to get a good night's sleep in that situation.

If you're her, I mean. He slept like a rock, I bet.

At least she wasn't in denial. Geez.

For erections lasting more than four hours you should consult your physician.

She'll never have a stiff like that again.

They will burry him face down so she can have a cold one whenever she wants to

She loved his dutch oven.

Gotta love that Febreze!

This happened recently? Seems like I read about it a few years ago... I heard the wifey had suspicion of gayness as he was hangin out at some dude club way too much. I think she kill him with antifreeze on their supposed wedding date. For shame...:shake:

"I just thought he was on a diet" / crazy wife

The sex was very rigormortis.

your literary reference is apt to be lost on the masses of CP. Just sayin'.

At least he never had problems getting hard.

Imagine dying and your wife still bitching at you. Poor guy.

I guess now she can just go back to leading a normal life.

This is some serious denial.

Guess it was a draw on the contest to see who would get off their lazy ass and pay the rent first.

love is a many splendored thing... and it smells.

Gah, with all that seepage, how could she sleep with that?

"You're not getting off that easy, Harold!!!!"

At least he had a boner

Nice!!

:thumb:

It's hard out here for a member of the intelligentsia.

His morning breath smells like death.

it's a lonely island...

Awwww I could do this but a vase between my legs isn't quite the same thing.

"Okay, what does that bed smell like? Good? Flowers? Springtime? Now take off your blindfold!"

LMAO... that's what I was thinking. She's finally winning arguments and enjoying it too much to quit...

Probably less from after death than when he was alive.

Weird stuff. Belgium is the Florida of Europe.

I bet this guy farted a lot when he was alive.

On the next American Horror Story. ...

I wonder if her boyfriend is crossing "menaj au trois" from his bucket list.

She wasn't done bitching at him I suppose.

Must have been a lot smokers as neighbors...

Lol reminds me of the time I saw a cub fan barf up his hotdogs and then continue to chow down.

I wonder if her name was Ethyl.

Syfy execs just got hard

This is heartbreakingly sad.

I think this whole story broke because she saw an ad for Viagra, became alarmed when it said to call the doctor if you have an erection lasting more than 4 hours, and called a physician.

Sad thing is the ****ers been dead for a year and getting more pussy than I.

I fail to see how anyone with any kind of functioning sense of smell at all could tolerate that. Even a completely insane person would have to get tired of that stench.

On another note, why memorialize your departed relatives with a cheesy window decal? Really drive it home by pulling their casket behind your vehicle like a boat.

I always assumed the first stop for Al Davis was the taxidermist to be stuffed and one of those voice boxes installed where you hit a button and it sings a song, except in his case it just makes crazy personnel decisions.

I always assumed the first stop for your mother was the bus stop, where she got stuffed in the men's room.

What?

Type harder.

Your hatred for Al Davis...we get it man, that mean man didn't let you win. Let it go. Cry me a river, build a bridge and get over it.