There's so much to consider about death, real and imagined. And then there are just plain macabre stories. In Russia a 45-year-old man was arrested today for digging up corpses. He dressed them up doll-like in stockings and dresses and placed them around his apartment. The corpses were all female and they had died years ago between the ages of 15 to 26. He made one look like a teddy bear. He sometimes slept in a coffin or on graveyard benches. Imagine him actually digging up the bodies and then carrying them back to his apartment. How did he keep the bodies from decomposing? It was his parents who discovered the bodies. Norman Bates of Psycho comes to mind. I have heard many stories of people not reporting a loved ones' death because they did not want to be a lonely survivor. Often the survivor will dress up the deceased, talk to them and prop them up in chairs, etc.
Talking about macabre, how about a 36-year-old woman in the Bronx. She was caring for a 76-year-old man in her apartment. He died in the apartment. She was afraid she would get in trouble so she wrapped his body in plastic and put it in a suitcase. She then took the suitcase to the rear of an abandoned building nearby and left the suitcase there. She placed a small handwritten sign on the suitcase: "Rest in Peace."
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