This is messed up!

stdreb27

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http://cbs3.com/local/living.with.dead.2.1788697.html
A 91-year-old woman found living with the corpses of her husband and twin sister will be allowed to keep them if she installs a mausoleum or crypt, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
Jean Stevens has indicated through her attorney that she plans to build an aboveground vault on her property to store the bodies of James Stevens and June Stevens, according to Bradford County District Attorney Daniel Barrett.
"If she does that, the bodies will be released for that purpose," he said. "Otherwise they will be re-interred."
Stevens' attorney, Leslie Wizelman, did not immediately return phone messages left at her office.
Stevens previously told The Associated Press that she kept the embalmed remains of her loved ones because she wanted to be able to see them and talk to them. She also said she's claustrophobic and couldn't stand the thought of their bodies in caskets in the ground.
State police have been investigating the bizarre case since the corpses were discovered in mid-June. Authorities found the body of James Stevens on a couch in the detached garage and the body of June Stevens on a couch in a spare room off the bedroom.
Stevens had them dug up shortly after they died -- James in 1999 and June in October -- and tended to their remains at her rural property outside the northern Pennsylvania town of Wyalusing.
Barrett said a decision on charges could be made as early as Friday, after he meets with investigators.
He said authorities are looking into several possible violations, including misdemeanor abuse of a corpse. He also cited possible summary violations of the state health code, which regulates how bodies must be disinterred.
"There were some things done here that were not lawful," he said.
Police haven't said who retrieved the bodies.
What I want to know is who dug the bodies up? I mean a 91 year old just doesn't dig a 6 foot hole and pull up a body from that hole on her own...
 

geoj

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Coming from someone living in a city named after The Body of Christ I would have thoght you would have been more open minded…
 

stdreb27

Active Member
Originally Posted by GeoJ
http:///forum/post/3284768
Coming from someone living in a city named after The Body of Christ I would have thoght you would have been more open minded…

lol, actually I find it really sad. Where is her family that would have noticed it, or even talk to her... So she would haven't to be talking to her dead twin and husband...
I'm personally wondering when the separation of church and state nuts are going to come and make Corpus Christi, change its name...
 

fishtaco

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Originally Posted by stdreb27
http:///forum/post/3284779
lol, actually I find it really sad. Where is her family that would have noticed it, or even talk to her... So she would haven't to be talking to her dead twin and husband...
I'm personally wondering when the separation of church and state nuts are going to come and make Corpus Christi, change its name...
Somehow I don't think that will be an issue in Texas. LOL
Fishtaco (nobody actually knows the origin of my towns name)
 

aquaknight

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Isn't that embalming process, like more of a temporary thing?
After a certain period the bodies start to decompose?
 

stdreb27

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Originally Posted by Fishtaco
http:///forum/post/3284783
Somehow I don't think that will be an issue in Texas. LOL
Fishtaco (nobody actually knows the origin of my towns name)
Lol especially with all the catholics in this city, that would be entertaining...
 

flower

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Originally Posted by ReefForBrains
http:///forum/post/3284801
boy this is embarrassing...I knew I should have visited more. Dont worry.. I'll talk to her.


Just my opinion:
Old folks do funny things, she didn’t want to be alone and she herself was afraid of the close quarters of a casket…
I don’t think she has a healthy mind, but at least she can remember her loved ones names…at 91 that’s pretty good. I say appease her and make the time she has left a happy one. They have those glass cases like what they put saint somebody in for people to view for years…pose them on the sofa in a case like that and let her visit until her days are gone. What’s the harm?
 

stdreb27

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Originally Posted by Flower
http:///forum/post/3284810


Just my opinion:
Old folks do funny things, she didn’t want to be alone and she herself was afraid of the close quarters of a casket…
I don’t think she has a healthy mind, but at least she can remember her loved ones names…at 91 that’s pretty good. I say appease her and make the time she has left a happy one. They have those glass cases like what they put saint somebody in for people to view for years…pose them on the sofa in a case like that and let her visit until her days are gone. What’s the harm?

But it really begs the question, who is caring for her, obviously she is pretty capable to be living in some rural area. But speaking from my experience, once you get that age, she really needs to be close (like next door) to family or basically family friends. As much as it doesn't sit well with me (like there is no way I'd have an urn in my house), I have no problem if that is what she wants to do, everyone deals with loss differently.
 

flower

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Originally Posted by stdreb27
http:///forum/post/3284839
But it really begs the question, who is caring for her, obviously she is pretty capable to be living in some rural area. But speaking from my experience, once you get that age, she really needs to be close (like next door) to family or basically family friends. As much as it doesn't sit well with me (like there is no way I'd have an urn in my house), I have no problem if that is what she wants to do, everyone deals with loss differently.

An Urn I could live with MAYBE, but this lady keeps the whole body..from the sound of it..that is all that is left of her family and she wants them there with her.
 

meowzer

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I don't get this....are you guys saying since she is 91 she should be able to keep dead people in her house
 

stdreb27

Active Member
Originally Posted by meowzer
http:///forum/post/3284843
I don't get this....are you guys saying since she is 91 she should be able to keep dead people in her house

Why not?
(in case you didn't read the whole thing) that is what the lawyers aggreed to as long as she properly "stored" them. And didn't have them lounging around on couches.
 

meowzer

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Originally Posted by stdreb27
http:///forum/post/3284857
Why not?
(in case you didn't read the whole thing) that is what the lawyers aggreed to as long as she properly "stored" them. And didn't have them lounging around on couches.
Yeah, I read it......It still seems wierd......
 

stdreb27

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Originally Posted by meowzer
http:///forum/post/3284858
Yeah, I read it......It still seems wierd......
Don't get me wrong, I think it is messed up, and there is no way I'd be cool with it, if it were my grandmother... But if the health issues surrounding corpses is addressed, ie she builds a mausoleum in the house. Then who are we to tell her what she can and can't do, (assuming she is the one legally responsible for making the decisions about the corpses)
 

meowzer

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Originally Posted by stdreb27
http:///forum/post/3284878
Don't get me wrong, I think it is messed up, and there is no way I'd be cool with it, if it were my grandmother... But if the health issues surrounding corpses is addressed, ie she builds a mausoleum in the house. Then who are we to tell her what she can and can't do, (assuming she is the one legally responsible for making the decisions about the corpses)
I know what you are saying.....and I wasn't saying we should tell her what to do...IF DONE SANITARILY....I just think it's gross
 

darthtang aw

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Originally Posted by meowzer
http:///forum/post/3284879
I know what you are saying.....and I wasn't saying we should tell her what to do...IF DONE SANITARILY....I just think it's gross
I think bleeding from an orafice once a month is gross, but I still live with my wife. Love knows no boundaries..........
Darth (To far?) Tang
 
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