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Man Lives With Dead Mother For 20 Years
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cactain_steef replied on Tue Oct 4, 2005 @ 11:05am |
 Coolness: 154710 | [ news.bbc.co.uk ]
By Omar Farooq BBC News, Hyderabad A man in southern India preserved the corpse of his mother at home for 20 years until his death last week. Syed Abdul Gafoor, a teacher, had the body of his mother, Rahmat Bi, embalmed on her death in their home in the state of Andhra Pradesh in 1985. He then kept the body in the family home in Kadappa district, until his death after a long illness on Saturday. Neighbours say Mr Gafoor, was intensely attached to his mother, refusing to bury her according to Muslim customs. The family has now buried the bodies of mother and son in a local graveyard. 'Eccentric' After his mother's death, Mr Gafoor, a professor of English, took the body to the southern city of Madras (Chennai) in neighbouring Tamil Nadu state and got doctors there to embalm it with chemicals. He was so eccentric that he would let anybody to even look at the glass casket in which the body was kept Mr Gafoor returned home and kept his mother's embalmed body in a glass case in a room in the family home in Siddavata village, some 450km from the state capital, Hyderabad. "In the large ancestral home, he lived in one room and the body was kept in another one. He had made it clear to us that the body should be buried only after his death," said Syed Noor, a nephew of Mr Gafoor. "He was so eccentric that he would not allow anybody to even look at the glass casket in which the body was kept." A local resident said neighbours were unhappy with what Mr Gafoor did. "There were several protests. But he remained adamant that the body would remain with him till his last breath," said local revenue officer M Prabhakar Reddy. Neighbours say that Mr Gafoor divorced his wife six months after their wedding after she had a fight with her mother-in-law. Villagers said Mr Gafoor would continue to "consult" his mother after she died. "Before doing anything important, he would write 'yes' or 'no' on two pieces of paper. Then sitting near the embalmed body, he would draw lots and decide," said Syed Noor. Neighbours said that Mr Gafoor was a "highly respected man of letters". He had picked up degrees in English literature from Cambridge and Madras universities. He was head of the department at a college in Tamil Nadu when he took voluntary retirement in 1987 so that he would not have to spend so much time away from his mother's body. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» moondancer replied on Tue Oct 4, 2005 @ 12:33pm |
 Coolness: 92300 | gad daaang.
he prolly thought his mother's spirit would hang around as long as her body was still there. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» BeAtJuNkIe replied on Tue Oct 4, 2005 @ 2:11pm |
 Coolness: 48490 | wow..that takes mommas boy to a whole new level.. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cinderella_soul replied on Tue Oct 4, 2005 @ 7:49pm |
 Coolness: 56235 | I say that if people are obliged to bury bodies, embalmed or not, in caskets. Then it ought to be people's right to keep the body embalmes in their home. i think the only crime here was that he embalmed the body, what the fuck is nature supposed to do with that. garbage. long-time unbio-degradable garbage! Fuckin' Plastic! In fact, if we're going to embalm, it would prolly be more therapeutic to see the body everyday. Fuck out of sight out of mind, that;s for war mongers. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» elka replied on Tue Oct 4, 2005 @ 7:53pm |
 Coolness: 52465 | hhahahha i love stories like this.. eww.. that must have been a hell of a stench |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PitaGore replied on Wed Oct 5, 2005 @ 10:41am |
 Coolness: 471840 | shit !  |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PartyPopple replied on Fri Oct 7, 2005 @ 12:33am |
 Coolness: 63450 | gosh...people are strange |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Mico replied on Fri Oct 7, 2005 @ 4:04pm |
 Coolness: 150495 | ^^That's a nice picture of you |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PartyPopple replied on Sat Oct 8, 2005 @ 12:12pm |
| Coolness: 63450 | thanks :) |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Dark_Angel_2 replied on Tue Oct 11, 2005 @ 10:57am |
 Coolness: 69435 | a norman bates WANNABE :P |
Man Lives With Dead Mother For 20 Years
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