103 Year Old Lies In His Own Grave For 6 Years

[matcom]

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HUNDREDS of people are flocking to a remote village in eastern India to catch a glimpse of an old man who has spent six years lying inside his own grave waiting to die as he mourns for his wife, officials said.

Basanta Roy claims he is 103 and spends his day clearing weeds from the grave and lying in it. Belonging to a Hindu caste who bury their dead, Roy dug his grave close to his wife's after she died in the late 1990s.

"He cleans his grave every day and waits for his death, which seems to be eluding him," said Shyam Narayan Ram, a senior government official from Jharkhand state.

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21671644-5001028,00.html

[LaraMN]

1. Well, that's what MY husband's supposed to do, if I go first.

Though I doubt he'll bother to clean it regularly.
:eyes:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. the state of bihar (of which jharkhand used to be a part) is considered by most of india to be CRAZY

almost every terrible story that comes out of india is from bihar

[AllegroRondo]

4. kind of like how Americans consider Florida?

:hi:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

5. yeah but crazier. if you ever watch an indian movie and someone goes to bihar

NOTHING good comes of it. they will either be raped/murdered or both. or witness something horrendous etc

[Shell Beau]

3. Aw how sad! That really hurts my feelings!

[rug]

6. Does he leave it every 3 days?