Vietnamese man dug up wife's corpse 'so he could hug her'

A Vietnamese man dug up his wife's corpse and slept beside it for five years because he wanted to hug her in bed, it has been reported.
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, Vietnamnet.vn said.

The man, Le Van, told the website that after his wife died in 2003 he slept on top 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, Vietnamnet reported.

The father of seven said neighbours did not dare visit the house for several years.

"I'm a person that does things differently. I'm not like normal people," he was quoted as saying.

Wow,he's not kidding.
I wasn't sure where to out this particular story,but I settled for here.
That's really just sad.

I hope he treated her as well in life as he seems to feel for her now that she is gone.

Reminds me of the story of Elena and her creepy doctor from the early part of the 20th century.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Tanzler

We can only hope the press wasn't just being polite in calling his physical desires as "hug". The man needs help.

^^That's just what I was thinking. And now Voltaire's "Dead Girls Like Me" is stuck in my head.