Man Couldn't Afford Funeral So He Stored Father's Body In U-Haul

[matcom]

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MELBOURNE, Fla. -- Melbourne police made a gruesome discovery. A man had been storing his dead father's body for months and he even transported it from one Central Florida county to another.

When Melbourne police arrived at the Meadowdale apartment complex on East University near Babcock Street, they could tell just from the odor in the air that this claim was real. They had found a man's decomposing body.

Neighbors say Sean Silver was crushed when his father passed away. That's why neighbor Andrea Lynch couldn't believe it when she heard about the discovery that was made just a few yards from her front door.

"The whole thing's been freaky. I haven't been able to sleep or anything," Lynch says.

Police found 65-year-old Malvin Silver's decomposing body packed away in a U-Haul truck and parked for days at the apartment complex.

http://www.wftv.com/newsofthestrange/3446822/detail.html

[SoCalDem]

1. Funerals are very expensive, and if the guy had no money

I can almost understand his dilemma.. My friend's modest funeral a few weeks ago cost almost $7K, and it was VERY modest.. What if someone does not have credit?? Who has an extra $7K laying around??

When it was time to bury Ben, everyone concerned insisted on payment BEFORE any service was done.. His cemetery plot was paid for, or that would have added another $1,600.00..

Maybe this guy was so distraught that he "lost it" and just did not know what to do.. ..

[Padraig18]

2. I used to work for a funeral home.

Funeral services can be horrendously expensive, and some funeral homes do insist on up-front payment for certain items, but I know of no funeral home that charges for removal and embalming in advance; this guy should have at least called the ME/coroner's office. Daddy dearest wouldn't be a stinking heap of decomposing proptoplasm, if he had.

[SoCalDem]

4. That's true.. He should have asked for help

He'll probably be getting more "help" than he ever wanted, now..:(

[Loonman]

3. Funerals are a racket

They overcharge you for thousands of dollars so they can plant you in the ground after the house necrophiliac fucks you.

You're dead, you don't care, but they milk your family and insurance for all they can get.

I used to help dig graves part time, and some of the most despicable, base, people work in that industry.

[Padraig18]

5. True, but there are also some wonderful, caring people in it, too.

Every profession has its good, and bad.