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Woman lived with dead aunt for year
News Type: Event — Seeded on Wed Sep 5, 2007 3:08 PM EDT
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An Austrian woman lived with the mummified remains of her aunt for a year, Vienna police said Wednesday.
Officers found the corpse of the 96-year-old aunt under a blanket on a bed after ignoring the 51-year-old niece's claim that her aunt was sleeping and should not be disturbed, a police statement said.
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{"commentId":1001462,"authorDomain":"SVForbes"}
Occasionally I read about someone doing this to collect government benefits.
Definitely weird.
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#1 - Wed Sep 5, 2007 4:15 PM EDT{"commentId":1001485,"authorDomain":"cartooncat"}
Yes... though I can't even start to think how high the benefits would need to be to make me decide to live with a corpse....
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":1001500,"authorDomain":"SVForbes"}
I can't even start to think how high the benefits would need to be to make me decide to live with a corpse....
Priceless. :)
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":1001591,"authorDomain":"hotfreelancer"}
What about the smell of death? yuck!
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- 1 vote
#2 - Wed Sep 5, 2007 5:08 PM EDT{"commentId":1001603,"authorDomain":"cartooncat"}
Well...on the other hand, you never had to live in the same house as my brother's sneakers.... I reckon a decomposing corpse wouldn't be all that bad in comparison....
{"commentId":1001603,"threadId":"146898","contentId":"943351","authorDomain":"cartooncat"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":1001790,"authorDomain":"MinnieApolis"}
I am wondering how it is that the aunt was as it says, mummified? Did niece throw salt or other chemicals on her?
Is it that dry in Austria???
{"commentId":1001790,"threadId":"146898","contentId":"943351","authorDomain":"MinnieApolis"}
- 1 vote
#3 - Wed Sep 5, 2007 6:43 PM EDT{"commentId":1002024,"authorDomain":"eriktheread"}
mummifying 101: Freeze drying will do the trick. Just pop her in, close the lid.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":1002046,"authorDomain":"jhauser5"}
A body just going without moisture will mummify on its on like a piece of fruit. The aunt had been there a year. That was a long time to "mummify".
This niece needs some working on. She needs help badly.
The whole story just makes me want to just say....Yuck!!!
{"commentId":1002046,"threadId":"146898","contentId":"943351","authorDomain":"jhauser5"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":1002620,"authorDomain":"laughman"}
On the other hand, look at what Laura Bush has lived with for a lot longer.
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- 1 vote
#4 - Thu Sep 6, 2007 1:54 AM EDT{"commentId":1002844,"authorDomain":"cartooncat"}
ROFL
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":1003179,"authorDomain":"eriktheread"}
Memorable quotes: First words I ever heard spoken by an American on American soil - NY taxi driver, yelling something I didn't understand at the time: "Move it, stiff!". Not understanding the meaning of "freeze!" cost a Japanese student in NY his life. They used to say "live and learn", times change.
{"commentId":1003179,"threadId":"146898","contentId":"943351","authorDomain":"eriktheread"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":1003309,"authorDomain":"SVForbes"}
NY taxi driver,
NYC cab drivers.....definitely a vociferous and colorful lot.
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":1004168,"authorDomain":"backroadsbubba"}
It appears to me the two were getting along just fine under their arrangement. I think the police are meddling in family matters.
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- 2 votes
#5 - Thu Sep 6, 2007 3:06 PM EDT{"commentId":1004209,"authorDomain":"cartooncat"}
Indeed - maybe if the woman had put auntie in the fridge they'd have left her to get on with it....
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":1004259,"authorDomain":"backroadsbubba"}
A lotta people spoil their relatives.
{"commentId":1004259,"threadId":"146898","contentId":"943351","authorDomain":"backroadsbubba"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":1004586,"authorDomain":"eriktheread"}
Yeah, and some just let them stew.
{"commentId":1004586,"threadId":"146898","contentId":"943351","authorDomain":"eriktheread"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":1004206,"authorDomain":"MinnieApolis"}
Y'know, backroads may be right. There is that possibility that it was the longest stretch of peace they had since they started sharing living quarters.
{"commentId":1004206,"threadId":"146898","contentId":"943351","authorDomain":"MinnieApolis"}
- 2 votes
#6 - Thu Sep 6, 2007 3:19 PM EDT{"commentId":1004260,"authorDomain":"backroadsbubba"}
Those police are buttinskis.
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- 2 votes
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