Woman's body sits in front of TV for 2 1/2 years
By Christy Arnold, The Cincinnati Enquirer
MADISONVILLE, Ohio - Johannas Pope didn't want to be buried, believing that she would come back to life.
Pope died at her home here at age 61 on Aug. 29, 2003. A towel had been placed around her neck to keep her cool on that 87-degree summer day. She wore a white gown while sitting in a chair in an upstairs room, in front of a television that played as family members went about their lives downstairs.
She remained there, according to her wishes, for almost 2½ years.
"Don't show my body when I'm dead," Hamilton County's coroner, Dr. O'dell Owens, said Monday when explaining Pope's wishes. "Don't bury me. I'm coming back."
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Well ain't this just a special kind of beautiful. I think her wishes were super creepy, and WTF especially considering her age, but it's a sweet in a WTF-kinda-way that her family respected them to that extent, though I doubt it was good for their mental and probably physical health. Mine would probably have me buried against my wishes because they believe it's "fortunate" to have ground to be buried in, in spite of my personal preferences. Or if they cremate me, keep my ashes in something precious-moment-esque awful, instead of scatter at international water.
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MADISONVILLE, Ohio - Johannas Pope didn't want to be buried, believing that she would come back to life.
Pope died at her home here at age 61 on Aug. 29, 2003. A towel had been placed around her neck to keep her cool on that 87-degree summer day. She wore a white gown while sitting in a chair in an upstairs room, in front of a television that played as family members went about their lives downstairs.
She remained there, according to her wishes, for almost 2½ years.
"Don't show my body when I'm dead," Hamilton County's coroner, Dr. O'dell Owens, said Monday when explaining Pope's wishes. "Don't bury me. I'm coming back."
rest of the article at USATODAY.com
Well ain't this just a special kind of beautiful. I think her wishes were super creepy, and WTF especially considering her age, but it's a sweet in a WTF-kinda-way that her family respected them to that extent, though I doubt it was good for their mental and probably physical health. Mine would probably have me buried against my wishes because they believe it's "fortunate" to have ground to be buried in, in spite of my personal preferences. Or if they cremate me, keep my ashes in something precious-moment-esque awful, instead of scatter at international water.
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