PATNA, India (Reuters) - Hundreds of people are flocking to a remote village in eastern India to catch a glimpse of an old man who has spent six years lying inside his own grave waiting to die as he mourns for his wife, officials said.
Basanta Roy claims he is 103 and spends his day clearing weeds from the grave and lying in it. Belonging to a Hindu caste who bury their dead, Roy dug his grave close to his wife's after she died in the late 1990s.
"He cleans his grave every day and waits for his death, which seems to be eluding him," said Shyam Narayan Ram, a senior government official from Jharkhand state.
- From Yahoo.ca News
The article made me sad and raised a lot of questions. I wonder does he take the time to eat and drink each day expecting - even hoping - for it to be his last meal? What goes through his mind while he lies there day after day? What would happen if those hundreds of people instead of standing there gawking lifted him up and offered him love and support?
On a totally different note: as quoted by someone in another Yahoo News article, "it's both inappropriate and unusual to paint a dog."
Wise words for sure.
14 years ago
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