Body of 17 yr old son kept for 36 years

[40Hands]

HANOI (Reuters) - The family of a 17-year-old Vietnamese boy who died 36 years ago kept his body in their home after a fortune teller told relatives they had buried the teenager alive by mistake.
The boy's family thought he had died in 1968 of illness, but a herbal medicine man said told the father his son was still alive after the burial, the Ho Chi Minh City Police newspaper said on Tuesday.

Stricken with remorse, the father dug up the body and displayed it in a glass-covered coffin, keeping it in the family home in southern An Giang until he recently confessed the macabre secret to a police news reporter.

The newspaper ran a photo of the dead boy's brother posing with his arms folded next to the coffin of his sibling. The body of the boy had not decomposed, the report said.

Talk about false hopes.....
I wonder how it had not decomposed after more then 1/3 of a century

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: BroeBo

HANOI (Reuters) - The family of a 17-year-old Vietnamese boy who died 36 years ago kept his body in their home after a fortune teller told relatives they had buried the teenager alive by mistake.
The boy's family thought he had died in 1968 of illness, but a herbal medicine man said told the father his son was still alive after the burial, the Ho Chi Minh City Police newspaper said on Tuesday.

Stricken with remorse, the father dug up the body and displayed it in a glass-covered coffin, keeping it in the family home in southern An Giang until he recently confessed the macabre secret to a police news reporter.

The newspaper ran a photo of the dead boy's brother posing with his arms folded next to the coffin of his sibling. The body of the boy had not decomposed, the report said.

Talk about false hopes.....
I wonder how it had not decomposed after more then 1/3 of a century

ummm, embalming?

 

[Shelly21]

Body that doesn't decompose is suppose to be a very bad omen in Asian belief. Someone Asian jump in and back me up on this.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Yeah, it's a wonder how it hasn't decomposed with all that fly lice he ate over the years

just kidding, folks.

 

[Shelly21]

Originally posted by: Mwilding

Originally posted by: BroeBo

HANOI (Reuters) - The family of a 17-year-old Vietnamese boy who died 36 years ago kept his body in their home after a fortune teller told relatives they had buried the teenager alive by mistake.
The boy's family thought he had died in 1968 of illness, but a herbal medicine man said told the father his son was still alive after the burial, the Ho Chi Minh City Police newspaper said on Tuesday.

Stricken with remorse, the father dug up the body and displayed it in a glass-covered coffin, keeping it in the family home in southern An Giang until he recently confessed the macabre secret to a police news reporter.

The newspaper ran a photo of the dead boy's brother posing with his arms folded next to the coffin of his sibling. The body of the boy had not decomposed, the report said.

Talk about false hopes.....
I wonder how it had not decomposed after more then 1/3 of a century

ummm, embalming?

The embalming fluid is suppose to last about a month or so, and that's it. There was an expose on air tight coffins where the body would explode due to gas. I think it was on the fleecing of America.

 

[DurocShark]

Ew.

 

[Shelly21]

found the link

I guess it only last about a week. But the story is from Vietnam, maybe they filled the coffin with embalming fluid there.

 

[Leetman]

Odd.

 

[NuclearNed]

Something similar.

 

[40Hands]

Another reuters article:

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African police are going to court to demand the burial of a 77-year-old man who has been dead seven weeks despite his family saying a "prophet" had foretold his resurrection, police said on Wednesday.
Free State resident Paul Meintjes's body was returned to his family late last week after the local mortuary refused to store it any longer. The body was kept in his widow's room for three days before officials said it was a health risk and ordered it returned to the mortuary.

"The body is OK -- it is still recognizable," said police spokesman Captain Sam Makhele in Bloemfontein. "But after a few days out of the fridge the smell was not OK."

The police hoped a magistrate would decide soon, but it was not clear if the family would oppose the move, he said.

Meintjes died on July 1 but has been in South African newspaper headlines ever since, with his family at loggerheads with other members of their small farming community over his anticipated resurrection.

Police had no dealings with the Durban-based "prophet" and could give no more details about him, he said. South African media has named him as a former bank manager who has since gone to ground.

 

[Nitemare]

Ooooh that smell
Can?t you smell that smell
Ooooh that smell
The smell of death surrounds you
Ooooh that smell
Can?t you smell that smell
Ooooh that smell
The smell of death surrounds you

 

[ThePresence]

Well, they kept Lenin in plain view in Red Square for longer than that.

 

[Doggiedog]

That's crazy but sad.

If my son died I would probably go crazy too.

Unless you have kids, you really wouldn't understand just how much they mean to you.

 

[imported_yovonbishop]

I don't know whether to think that's disgusting or just sad... eh... it's both I guess

 

[Calin]

I don't like too much the summary of the topic. Would you like to change it, please?

 

[40Hands]

Ummmmmm....no. But thanks for the sugestion.

 

[Wahsapa]

Originally posted by: Shelly21
Body that doesn't decompose is suppose to be a very bad omen in Asian belief. Someone Asian jump in and back me up on this.

what body HASNT decomposed?.... naturally?