Man Lives with Dead Brother for 18 Months

[Rusty Trosclair]

I hope I am this oblivious when I get old.

www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=4291158

Here's what the deal is... discuss.

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.

Thanks.

[purple elephant]

well first off, bugger living with MY brothers when im old!!!!

and, i mean, didn't it smell??

[endlessjoe]

I know I go through my lazy phases where I'll walk into the kitchen and see a stack of dishes and be like, "Screw that...I'll deal with that later". I guarantee that guy did the same thing, just on a whole other level. There's NO way he didn't go check on him for over a YEAR!

He probably just walked in and was like, "Hmmm...dead brother.....nah, not today. I'll deal with that tomorrow". Then, the next day thought to himself, "Do I feel like taking care of that whole dead brother thing today?.....Nah, I've gotta watch some Love Connection". So on and so forth for 18 months....

[Jason/Peppito]

I bet the old man fucked his dead brother's corpse on those lonely nights. Thats probably why he never got rid of it. Then when it turned into a skeleton, he just left it there for home decor.

[the magician]

or..........he killed his brother in a blind heat of passion. stick that in your pants and sit on that now why don't you?