Soooo Weird...

[Squiggy]

Man Lives with Dead Brother for 18 Months

Feb 5, 7:38 am ET
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.

Silver said he had thought it a "bit odd" when his brother failed to emerge from his bedroom in the tiny home they shared in Blissford, southern England, but told the Daily Mirror:

"George liked to keep himself to himself, and to be honest so do I." A postmortem indicated George Silver had been dead for up to 18 months.

 

[tonksy]

i think the smell would have tipped me off....or the drop in the utilities...

 

[Oz]

Not big on conversation those two eh?

 

[drkavnger99]

Not only the smell but the miscelaneous pests/animals coming and going you'd think!

 

[Rose]

:s eeew.

 

[Leslie]

funny kinda, just thinking of the two grumpy old men living together and hating each other enough to not give a flying fig for a year and a half though

 

[unclehobart]

Tiny home, humid climate... the smell should have been horrendous, not to mention the bugs and whatnot. I wouldn't be suprised to hear that this ends up as a failure to report because the brother wanted to keep drawing the pension for both in fearing that he wouldn't have enough money to upkeep the house.