I promised a new post Friday and didn’t deliver and no one called me on it.
Nice. So, I was reading Yahoo! News when I came across this little article:
TOKYO –
Police on Tuesday questioned three siblings after it was discovered
they had been living with the decomposed corpse of their father for
nearly a decade, an official said.
Police found the body of Kyujiro Kanaoka
lying on a futon bed at the family’s home in Itami city in Hyogo
prefecture in western Japan, said a prefectural police spokesman, who
declined to be identified.
Kanaoka’s three elderly children, all in
their 70s or older, told police they thought their father was still
alive but that one of them recently had consulted a relative about the
possibility that he might be dead, the spokesman said.
Police were investigating the cause of
Kanaoka’s death. Judging from the condition of his decomposed body,
Kanaoka may have died as long as 10 years ago, the spokesman said.
Had he been alive, the man would be 107
years old. Hyogo prefecture had registered Kanaoka as its oldest living
resident, public broadcaster NHK said.
I love this line “…one of them
recently had consulted a relative about the possibility that he might
be dead.” Ten years this guy was lying on a futon and NO ONE thought
anything unusual about it for TEN YEARS? I… I… Yeah, I’m just at a loss for
words. This is hilarious or tragic, depending on how you look at it.
Hey_Granny says:
I would have to say that it is a little of both. I guess in their country they do not know any better. They might want to start educating the people there about death. TTYL
~~R~~
Anonymous says:
That is totally crazy…I would have smelled it the second day, how could they not have known?
tooterman says:
Maybe they thought it was a natural process the body went through. You know, like a snake losing its skin. Maybe they thought it was something like that. Or maybe they were just crack heads.