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  • Man kept embalmed body of mother for 21 years

    10/05/2005 2:28:08 PM PDT · by Rollee · 34 replies · 1,021+ views
    The Chicago Sun Times ^ | October 5, 2005 | AP
    HYDERABAD, India -- A man who kept the embalmed body of his mother at home in a glass casket for 21 years was buried along with her after his death, a relative said Tuesday. Hundreds of residents on Sunday attended the burials of Syed Abdul Ghafoor, 69, and his mother at a mosque in Siddavata, a town 300 miles south of Hyderabad. Ghafoor divorced his wife after six months of marriage because she had a fight with his mother, said Ghafoor's nephew, Syed Noor. "He was so eccentric that he would not allow anybody else even to look at the...