Aggregate Death
Keeping Your Dead Husband on the Living Room Floor for Nine Months So You Can Keep Collecting his Social Security Benefits
While it’s possible this woman is suffering from some form and/or degree of mental illness, this story is nonetheless a WTF kinda story.
By Katelyn Murphy:
INDIANAPOLIS (CNN/Kate Murphy)– A Lafayette woman has been arrested in connection with the death of her husband, which went unreported for months.
Ila Solomon, 55, was taken into custody Thursday on charges of welfare fraud, theft, failure to report a dead body, failure to file a death certificate and unlawful disposition of a dead human body.
Of particular note, prosecutors allege that Solomon was illegally cashing her husband’s social security and pension checks, even while he lied dead on the floor for months.
Solomon’s husband — Gerald Gavan, 88 — was found dead May 3 in the living room of their home, nine months after he had died.
In an interview with RTV6 in August, Solomon said her husband wanted to be part of a ritual in India where vultures consume human bodies after death.
“I just think that somebody who did so much for the United States should have the death he wanted, that’s all,” Solomon said. “He just wanted to be eaten by the birds to be part of the cycle of life.”
“Plan number two would be for me to take him outside or him to die outside so that the birds could eat him here, but that didn’t happen, instead he died right there,” Solomon told reporter Drew Smith.
Solomon said Gavan died April 28th of this year from a stroke. The Tippecanoe County coroner disagreed, saying a forensic entomologist determined Gavan had been dead since at least July 2013 before officers discovered his body on his living room floor in May.
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“WOODLAND BURIAL”: a poem by Pam Ayers
Don’t lay me in some gloomy churchyard shaded by a wall
Where the dust of ancient bones has spread a dryness over all,
Lay me in some leafy loam where, sheltered from the cold
Little seeds investigate and tender leaves unfold.
There kindly and affectionately, plant a native tree
To grow resplendent before God and hold some part of me.
The roots will not disturb me as they wend their peaceful way
To build the fine and bountiful, from closure and decay.
To seek their small requirements so that when their work is done
I’ll be tall and standing strongly in the beauty of the sun.
Written by Pam Ayres
When You Know Your Time with Your Newborn Child is Limited …
This clip chronicles the journey this pregnant couple went through — from realizing their child wasn’t developing correctly, to identifying the problem, and finally, laying him to rest. On a positive note, the couple seems to be in a better place now. — Via SFGlobe
