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** A similar case took place in Japan in 1959. Dr. Karsuaburo Miyamoto was unable to accept his wife's death, so he embalmed the body and kept her in their conjugal bed for ten years before he was caught. [http://www.trivia-library.com/b/strange-history-and-news-of-weird-trivia-1959-to-1967.htm Source].
* The Peavey family of New Hampshire had a [https://web.archive.org/web/20091105230108/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297495,00.html mummified stillborn infant] as a sort of heirloom for 90 years, until a child let the secret slip and the state ordered that the body be buried. Though the family engaged in some playful acts with the body, like giving it cards on holidays and a dried fish for a pet, they never fully enacted this trope. (Someone in the past might have, however, considering the body was left unburied so long).
** Someone dug out [https://web.archive.org/web/20100510003646/http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gnsBYieDL6mf_U5L8W7RFhNoo6BwD9FG8QL80 the grave] of that unfortunate corpse
* Ed Gein, the inspiration behind Norman Bates, Leatherface, and Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb.
* Then there was [[wikipedia:Joanna of Castile|Queen Juana of Castile]], queen regnant in the early 16th century, who was said to have kept her husband's body around for years after his death, and definitely did so for several months until the church stopped her. Otherwise known as Joanna the Mad.
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