Mummified body found in front of TV

[Sequoia]

CINCINNATI, Ohio (AP) -- The mummified body of a woman who didn't want to be buried was found in a chair in front of her television set 2 1/2 years after her death, authorities said.

Johannas Pope had told her live-in caregiver that she didn't want to be buried and planned on returning after she died, Hamilton County Coroner O'Dell Owens said Monday.

Pope died in August 2003 at age 61. Her body was found last week in the upstairs of her home on a quiet street. Some family members continued to live downstairs, authorities said. No one answered the doorbell at Pope's home Monday afternoon.

It could take weeks to determine Pope's cause of death because little organ tissue was available for testing, Owens said.

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http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/10/mummifed.body.ap/index.html

[skygazer]

1. I read this this morning

It doesn't get much stranger than that. Seems like a waste of a TV - I doubt she was getting much enjoyment out of it.