WEIRD: Woman Sleeps Next to The Remains of Her Dead Husband for Almost a Year

A grieving woman was so devastated by her husband's death
that she couldn't bear to report it – and slept next
to his corpse for almost a year.
The mummified remains of Marcel H, 79, lay undiscovered in
a Brussels apartment.
It's thought that he died of an asthma attack in November last
year, but his beloved 69-year-old wife, who hasn't been
named, continued to sleep next to the grisly remains, despite
the smell of decomposition.
Neighbours didn't detect any unusual odours and the
authorities in Belgium only became suspicious after the
landlord claimed the couple had not paid their rent since
2012.
When they entered the apartment they
found the mummified remains of Marcel H.
Philippe Boxho, pathologist at the Forensic Center of Liege
said: 'A body can mummify in a dry, warm environment.
'It takes at least a week to reach such a
state. In this case the body had rotten in the bed and his
internal organs had melted and liquefied.
'This liquid would have spread and the bed would have been
swarming with insects as the body rotted, this would have
been a real shame.
'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.
'This is not the first time I have made a
discovery of this kind, I've been faced with two or three other
occasions where people have continued to sleep with the
corpse of their partner.'
When they entered the apartment they
found the mummified remains of Marcel H.