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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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I spent some nights with her, and the behaviour of her baby makes me feel like there’s another man she knows. She cries when I pick her up.
The same thing happens when she wakes up and sees me in bed with her mother. I’m not comfortable with the way that baby looks at me. It’s as though there’s someone else looking at me through her eyes. She doesn’t blink an eye. She looks at me as if I’m not the one she’s expecting to see. Is this normal?
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Psychiatrist: Does a dream usually precede your bed-wetting?
Man: Yes.
Psychiatrist: Tell me how it happens.
Man: A little demon appears to me in my sleep and says, “Hey… Let us pee.” Then, I wake up to see the bed wet with my urine.
Psychiatrist: This is what you must do. If the demon comes tonight and tells you “let us pee”, just reply him that you have already peed.
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Psychiatrist: Why are you weeping? Didn’t my therapy work?
Man: You have worsened my case!
Psychiatrist: What? How?
Man: When the demon came, I told him I’d already peed. Then he said, “OK, let us sh*t.”
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