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Old 06-05-2014, 11:03 AM
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Bizzare story locally

Just up the street from me recently they found a man dead in his house. As the news trickled out it appeared he had been dead for a good while. He was 92 IIRC (and used to drive around a fairly nice 107 with veteran license plate).

Turns out there is a lady who has been living with him for about 8 years who actually (apparently) married him about a year ago. She lived in the house next door which she (or they) bought a year or so ago to fix up and sell.

She told the police (and or) the newspaper that he died five days ago and that he had requested, no made her promise, that he be put out for the birds to pick clean according to Buddist tradition. She said she had been going over every night since he died and leaving the doors open so the birds could come in.

The police are investigating her financial records. the coroner is still running tests to determine cause of death.

Goofy stuff happening in sleepy Lafayette!

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Old 06-05-2014, 11:49 AM
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Many cultures perform "sky burials" which is aimed to give back to nature what the soul no longer needs. It was also darned convenient when burial or cremation was difficult due to lack of fuel or ground conditions.
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Old 06-05-2014, 11:51 AM
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I'll take a wild guess and say maybe she has been cashing his soc security and any other checks coming in. If true, she is at best a petty thief. If she has not been cashing them then she is kindof goofy, apparently. And depending on what the coroner comes up with as cause of death......?
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Old 06-05-2014, 11:53 AM
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I'll take a wild guess and say maybe she has been cashing his soc security and any other checks coming in. If true, she is at best a petty thief. If she has not been cashing them then she is kindof goofy, apparently. And depending on what the coroner comes up with as cause of death......?
Wild guesses are just that.......you know what they say about making presumptions and assumptions.....
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Old 06-05-2014, 12:05 PM
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. . . wait . . . what did he just say?
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Old 06-05-2014, 12:39 PM
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I do not know if it is the news media today or what. Maybe we always had a percentage of strange things. Like the guy 40 miles away killing three police officers and wounding two last night and still on the loose there.

Never before has there been any incident even remotely comparable in my area of the world. This is a low stress area to live in for people.

The guy asking to be picked clean by birds was not totally rational. The practicality of his request was not there plus there are laws against this type of thing. No real harm has been done though if the death was natural.

The smell in that house if he had not been found would have been horrific.
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Old 06-05-2014, 01:09 PM
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Many cultures perform "sky burials" which is aimed to give back to nature what the soul no longer needs. It was also darned convenient when burial or cremation was difficult due to lack of fuel or ground conditions.
True. But until Big Funeral figures out how to get handsomely compensated for them, they'll likely not catch on here.

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True. But until Big Funeral figures out how to get handsomely compensated for them, they'll likely not catch on here.

Hearse. Black limo. Vulture flock.
They are slowly getting the cost of funerals where cremation is involved up there now though as well.

I simply instructed the wife do away with me cheaply using cremation. I would rather the money be spent on even a party for total strangers or given away that having an expensive funeral.

More money spent on the dead than absolutly required to me is a total waste. A couple of thousand at most should still do it here. I really feel this way for myself.
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Future archeologist are going to fall over laughing when they dig up the guy in the Caddy or the guy in the glass boxed Harley.
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Old 06-05-2014, 04:30 PM
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True. But until Big Funeral figures out how to get handsomely compensated for them, they'll likely not catch on here.

Hearse. Black limo. Vulture flock.
We got some seagulls around here that would do the job cheaper than vultures....
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Old 06-05-2014, 04:37 PM
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They are slowly getting the cost of funerals where cremation is involved up there now though as well.

I simply instructed the wife do away with me cheaply using cremation. I would rather the money be spent on even a party for total strangers or given away that having an expensive funeral.

More money spent on the dead than absolutly required to me is a total waste. A couple of thousand at most should still do it here. I really feel this way for myself.
I met a guy in Boulder who cremated his mom on their ranch.
The county made him stock 2 cords of hardwood for the job...

I want no fancy funeral, a nice wake with an open bar would be nice... one last fling on me for those who survive me

Another bizarre death story....
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Old 06-05-2014, 04:40 PM
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More money spent on the dead than absolutly required to me is a total waste. A couple of thousand at most should still do it here. I really feel this way for myself.
Ayup - I'm not planning on being around for my funeral, so don't go trying to impress me by spending large!

A couple thousand is the target we tried to hit when it came time to bury Ma. Cremation was out of the question simply because it was totally unacceptable to her (and to Ed).

We missed that target pretty dramatically - and Darling Wife is an absolute pro when it comes to not spending money. We eliminated/cut/went low budget all the way down the line; brother and law and I built her coffin, we transported it to the cemetery, no headstone, no flowers, got a HUGE bargain from the funeral home because of our circumstances (and aforementioned Darling Wife skills), etc. etc. etc.

Still spent right around $6K. There are legal hooks in place - you have to get the body out of the hospital within 3 days (even though they'd happily store it for us, no charge, until the funeral) or it goes to a teaching hospital and you have to have a concrete liner - that forced more than half of what we spent.

We technically could have avoided those two big ticket items by transporting her to our house in our wagon (legal in MD) and burying her on our own property (also legal in MD). But shallow water table + well water + Ma pumped full of black box chemo drugs = bad mojo on the backyard burial.
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Just up the street from me recently they found a man dead in his house. As the news trickled out it appeared he had been dead for a good while. He was 92 IIRC (and used to drive around a fairly nice 107 with veteran license plate).

Turns out there is a lady who has been living with him for about 8 years who actually (apparently) married him about a year ago. She lived in the house next door which she (or they) bought a year or so ago to fix up and sell.

She told the police (and or) the newspaper that he died five days ago and that he had requested, no made her promise, that he be put out for the birds to pick clean according to Buddist tradition. She said she had been going over every night since he died and leaving the doors open so the birds could come in.

The police are investigating her financial records. the coroner is still running tests to determine cause of death.

Goofy stuff happening in sleepy Lafayette!
So, what happened to the "fairly nice 107?!"
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Old 06-05-2014, 06:06 PM
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So, what happened to the "fairly nice 107?!"
That really is the question... We were all just being polite before pouncing...

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