Japanese man kept dead mother in a backpack.

[simonjedi]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11039196

The remains of a Japanese woman have been found in a backpack, in the latest gruesome discovery by investigators searching for missing old people.

The woman's son told police his mother died in 2001 but he had not been able to pay for a burial.

A similar discovery weeks ago sparked a search for people who are registered as being more than 100 years old.

According to Japanese media, the audit has so far identified 281 centenarians who are missing or have already died.
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The inquiry followed the discovery last month of the mummified remains of a man registered as being 111 years old. He had died 30 years earlier.

Those unaccounted for include a 125-year-old woman whose registered address was turned into a park in 1981, according to media reports.

In the latest find, a 64-year-old man told officials that his mother had died at home in Tokyo in "about June 2001".

"Because I didn't have money for a funeral, I didn't report her death," the Sankei Shimbun newspaper quoted him as saying.

The AFP news agency reported that he told police: "I laid out her body for a while, washed it in the bath, then broke up the bones and put them into a backpack."

But the woman's pension continued to be paid and police are now investigating the son on suspicion of fraud.

There are more than 40,000 registered centenarians in Japan, according to government data, but the number of missing has raised concerns that the welfare system is being exploited by dishonest relatives.

Analysts say there is dismay in Japan that a rich, efficient society could have lost track of its senior citizens to such a degree.

I guess his mother's death must have weighed heavy on his shoulders.

 

[Eejit]

Yes, the cost of a funeral can be a hard burden to bear.

 

[Remus]

Collecting her pension for 9 years was also a heavy burden do doubt.

 

[PvtRyan]

He will be sacked at his job for sure.

 

[morgs]

I'm sure if she knew his intent, she would have been behind him all the way.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

I'm sure like any other mother, she wanted to have his back secured.

 

[Krynn72]

I wonder if it was uncomfortable having his mom all up in his sack.

Did I do it right?

 

[DEATHMASTER]

You make it sound like he put her in his balls.

 

[love_nutz2]

The release of the son's new album title " Rest you hands on my shoulders " was held by in the market today, officials said "we may have to place this album in a bag for sometime"

 

[Bad^Hat]

That backpack must have been heavy because he had to carry it with his mother's rotting corpse in there.

 

[YROC]

She was an irl weighted companion cube.

 

[Raziaar]

Should have gone to these dudes.

Great movie by the way, watch it if you can. Departures.

 

[JUL3]

How the shit do you get a person into a backpack?

 

[Qonfused]

I bet if his mother knew what her son did, she would fall into pieces.

 

[VirusType2]

I guess his mother's death must have weighed heavy on his shoulders.

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[DEATH eVADER]

He will be sacked at his job for sure.

I'm surprised nobody caught on to it when he went to reach for his lunch in his backpack