How Are Your Coping Skills?

In 2003 Le Van’s wife died. But her problems were only starting. Le Van, thinking those tunnels his countrymen dug fighting the Americans during the Vietnam war were good for other things too, tunneled into the buried coffin of his dead wife for hugs. When his kids found out about him acting like a naked mole rat, they told him to stop, for God’s sake, just stop. So he dug up the corpse, molded clay skin over the festering goo and has been sleeping with it in his bed for the past 5 years.

From the Scotsman here:

A Vietnamese man dug up his wife’s corpse and slept beside it for five years because he wanted to hug her in bed.

The 55-year-old man from a small town in the central province of Quang Nam opened up his wife’s grave in 2004, moulded clay around the remains to give the figure of a woman, put clothes on her and then placed her in his bed.

The man, Le Van, said that after his wife died in 2003 he slept ontop of her grave, but about 20 months later he worried about rain, wind and cold, so he decided to dig a tunnel into the grave “to sleep with her”.

His children found out, though, and prevented him from going to the grave. So one night in November 2004 he dug up his wife’s remains and took them home.

Nice coping skills. You know, they sell body pillows at Walmart for about 25 bucks.