Life in the old dog yet!

Well, read this in the local evening rag, tickled me (and bemused) a bit. I really don't see how this could have happened :razz:

Lifted from bbc.co.uk

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A Japanese man said to be Itami city's oldest male has been found dead at his home up to a decade after his death.


The man's mummified body was found lying face down on a
bed in the home he shared with his children after a relative called the
police.

Kyujiro Kaneoka was believed to have been alive, aged 107, and was named as Itami's oldest man six years ago.


The mayor visited his house every year but his family refused to let the him in, saying the man was bedridden.



"The body was wearing a clean kimono. He is believed to
be dead for five to 10 years. We are talking to his family members why
they kept him like this," an official told the AFP news agency.

'Too weak'


The three siblings said they thought their father was
still alive, but one recently consulted a relative about the
possibility he might be dead, a police spokesman said.

A report in the Mainichi Daily News said the man's son
and two daughters kept his kimono-clad body in the first room of their
house in Itami, 400km (250 miles) west of Tokyo.

The futon on which the body was laid was surrounded by religious amulets, charms and tokens, the report said.


The cause of his death has yet to be determined, police said.


An official with the Itami city hall told the AFP news
agency that the city was considering asking Kaneoka's family to return
gifts it had received since 1999 as a token of the man's longevity.


[size=13]<!-- E BO -->"Every year we gave the family 30,000 yen ($288; ?150) and a cashmere blanket worth 20,000 yen ($192; ?100)," the official said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4333379.stm - original story.

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Wouldn't there have been a horrific stench a few weeks after his death? They hadn't noticed it I guess. Too funny

Make no mistake: crazy stuff happens over in Japan. Crazy stuff.

Wouldn't there have been a horrific stench a few weeks after his death? They hadn't noticed it I guess. Too funny

maybe something to do with the mummification? on the other hand, i
guess you would get used to a smell after living with it for 10
years.....

It depends how he died, and what else they've done with his body, don't forget.

Strange that they gave them money without confirming that the man was alive.

Well there was loads of incence kept around him, they must of thought he was fine, and he was lying on his front- so you wouldn't have noticed his body. But I just find it so god damn funny lol.

And they must have believed that he fed himself in some bizarre way.

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<DIV class=quotetext>And they must have believed that he fed himself in some bizarre way.
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Not to mention the sneaky old guy always going to the bathroom in the middle of the night so no one would see... or the cool way he could absorb oxygen without breathing... or... Damn. This could be a long list!

His spirit powers did it ok?! Geeze! When you get to 100 you become holy- or in his case, 97 :razz: