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HYDERABAD, India (Reuters) – A professor of English in southern
\n India loved his mother so much that he lived with her corpse for 20 years.
\n When he died, the pair were laid to rest in the same grave.<\/p>\n
Syed Abdul Gafoor’s mother died in 1985, but he refused to bury her, authorities
\n said
\n Instead, he preserved her body with chemicals and kept it at home in a
\n glass case, causing his wife to leave him and sparking a social boycott
\n in Siddavatta village in Andhra Pradesh state.<\/p>\n
"He kept the body intact and lived in isolation till he died Saturday " district
\n administrator Ashok Kumar told Reuters. Gafoor, 60, was buried along
\nwith his mother in a single grave near the village mosque according to his last
\n wish, Kumar said. <\/p>\n
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\n lot. We’ve been around the block, but often end up coming home to Mom.
\n We hate
\n to give up the things we love, and will go to great lengths to pretend
\n the world is the way we wish it were. We hope that when we finally pass
\n away, the authorities have the decency to let us rest in eternal peace
\n with the 37 dearly departed souls whose earthly remains we have so carefully
\n preserved down in the root cellar……<\/em><\/p>\n