The year of living disgustingly

There's a thin line between being utterly devoted to someone and being crazy. This woman crossed that line about a year ago:

A 66-year-old Austrian woman lived for almost a year with the corpse of her 85-year-old partner, APA news agency said Wednesday.

Police found the remains of the man in the couple's small vacation cottage in the eastern village of St Andrae am Zicksee Tuesday, swaddled in blankets with the dwelling reeking of decomposition odors.

The woman had told a local doctor and neighbors who tried to contact the man since last March that he was abroad. APA said police were looking into whether the woman concealed his death in order to collect his pension payments.

The dearly departed must have had a really good pension plan, since living with a rotting corpse for a year doesn't seem worth it for a couple hundred bucks a month.

Although the aforementioned craziness probably helped, too.