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Man cremates wife after living with her coffin for nearly 21-years
A 72-year-old man in Thailand recently cremated his wife after living with her remains for more than two decades. According to news reports, Charn Janwatchakal finally bade farewell to his wife on April 30 — 21-years after she died.
A video shared on Facebook showed Mr Janwatchakal assisting Bangkok Foundation staff in taking his wife’s coffin outside his home. He had reportedly kept his spouse’s body next to him in a small room where he slept and spoke to her pretending she was still alive.
According to reports, the charity workers retrieved the rotten coffin from the dingy space, surrounded by plastic bags and other rubbish. No legal actions have been taken against the man as he had registered his wife’s death with officials.
Mr Janwatchakal’s partner died from a congenital disease in 2001. He was said to have reached out to the Foundation “seeking help with cremation rituals as he feared his dead wife would not get a proper ceremony in the event of his death.
Mr Janwatchakal is well educated and had earned several degrees. But his home remained without electricity and was said to be in a poor condition.
The 72-year-old revealed that he used to live with his wife and two sons, however, his sons decided to move out of the house as they were not comfortable with their father’s decision to keep the corpse on the property. — ndtv.com
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Message in bottle floats from Canada to Ireland in 13 years
A message in a bottle launched by visitors to Newfoundland’s Bell Island was found washed up on an Irish beach nearly 13 years later, after apparently crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
Kate Gay said she was walking a Dingle Peninsula beach this week when she spotted the wine bottle with a sheet of paper inside.
Gay showed the bottle to members of Creative Ireland NeartnaMacharaí during a meeting at her house that evening, and they broke the bottle open.
The note, written by a couple named Brad and Anita, was dated Sept. 12, 2012. The letter described the couple’s day trip to Bell Island.
There was a phone number on the letter, but there was no answer when group members tried to call.
The Maharees Heritage and Conservation group posted photos of the bottleto social media on Monday, and within an hour group members were messaging with Anita.
Group member Martha Farrell said Anita reported that she and Brad had married in 2016 and are still together to this day. -upi.com
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Woman earns world record for collection of 15,485 egg cups
A Spanish woman who has been collecting egg cups for over 50 years earned a Guinness World Record when her collection was tallied at 15,485 items.
María José Fuster recruited two witnesses to help her tally her collection at a community center in her hometown of Campo, Spain.
Fuster’s collection includes multiple patterns, colors, designs and even novelty cups bearing the images of characters including Superman, Betty Boop and Garfield.
Fuster maintains two blogs related to her hobby — one to catalog each piece, and one to list the names of the people who have donated egg cups to her collection.
Some of her most prized egg cups, about 1,143 of them, are currently on display at a local museum.
-upi.com
