Man Lives with Dead Brother for 18 Months

[Casshew]

LONDON (Reuters) - A British retiree did not notice his brother had been dead for 18 months despite sharing a mobile home with him.

When Herbert Silver, 72, finally called police and told them his brother George, 75, had died, they went to the bachelors' home expecting to find a body. Instead they found a skeleton, British newspapers reported Thursday.

"I admit that I didn't go into his room for a few hours, a few days...well quite a while actually," Herbert Silver told the Daily Telegraph

Reuters Story (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=4291158)

[alpharee]

oh man, hard to think he didn't notice? I mean 18 months in your bedroom, not coming out? And umm the smell?????

[sansoucie]

LOL! This will probably be my fate....
"Woman found in computer room.... dead for 18 months. Family didn't notice."


LOL!

[maketoast]

haha, that's great sansoucie. That would probably fit most of us! What a shame...how can you not notice the Smell for 18 Months? And the Brother for that matter. I would maybe give it 18 hours or so, then I would check..but 18 months...WOW!

[sansoucie]

Hmmm sinus problems??? :) Wonder if there was any cashing of SS checks or anything going on?