Japan man 'kept dead mother in a backpack'

Wow; talk about having your mum always ride your back!

why not dig a hole in ur backyard and put the corpse there? That's what I was thinking. Not having enough money for a funeral is no reason to tote Momma's corpse around like a load of school books.

ewwww. . .You know it smelled horribly! Out of all the things he could have done to the body, he stuffs it in a backpack?? He could have buried it in a yard, burned it, thrown it in a lake somewhere, tossed it into some woods and let nature take care of it. . .Stuffed it in the backpack and then throw it up in a tree. . .the list goes on. . .but to stuff it in a backpack and keep it?? He did keep it, right? The article didn't really say. . .and that really makes a big difference! That's really sad though. I don't know what I'd do if I couldn't pay for my mom's funeral. What's the procedure on ... [More]

According to the article the man was still collecting her pension checks. I know Japanese real estate is expensive but after collecting a few years of pension money he could have afforded to pay for a plot!! lol JK I know they would realize she had passed away a while ago...

I've got a mental contest going on about who's weirder: the Japanese or the Koreans.

Deaths that shocked Japan Reports that a Japanese man kept his dead mother's body in a rucksack for almost ten years are the latest in a string of unusual death-related stories from the country. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/7957540/Deaths-that-shocked-Japan.html U don't know if this story was posted already in this forum or not,i searched and ..nothing ... Is a very intresting story abour japanese society which we don't know it how should be known !

Well it is...Japan. Haven't come across the story anywhere else here, miht not have been posted already.

a note to MOD ... so sorry ... i don't know why i couldn't find it... thank you for a very good job which you are doing in this section .

a note to MOD ... so sorry ... i don't know why i couldn't find it... thank you for a very good job which you are doing in this section . No worries. It had a different title to the one you just posted which is why you couldn't find it. I remembered the story because it was me who posted it.

I don't think there was one. Yours is the first.