Absolutely god damned right too. That’s HER money. She earned it. If it’s not paid out to her because she died before she got it back, her son should get it.
Just imagine you’re paying a mandatory fee each month (a big chunk of your money) into a fund that is supposed to provide for you when you get old, and then you die before you get old enough, then FUCK YOU give the money back. It’s not yours to keep. She earned it.
Yeah no, that’s not how a pension system can be sustainable.
Some people must get less than they paid so that others don’t have to starve to death because they live to the age of 100.
And that’s honestly OK. The same way someone who never gets sick in their life has to pay for all the chronically ill.
You know I kind of realized this while I was typing out my outrage. So, fair. But still, in the light of what they do with our pension funds, I am hard pressed to blame someone wanting to have some of their parents pensions when said parents die.
We had a similar situation here too. Mom was dead buried in the garden, daughter was taking the money etc people started to ask questions “where is your mother”. Police did finally search her residence and found her.
At least he didn’t run a hotel or anything…
Did you see the Netflix Ed Gein limited series?
He did have rental properties….
That’s pretty impressive honestly.
I thought it was a before and after image before I read the title. Damn fine work.
I wanna laugh and say he is an egg taking an opprutinity to step outside his gender.
But…
Not only did her son not officially report her death, he wrapped her body in a bedsheet, stuffed it into a sleeping bag and hid it in his house.
But it’s not funny, just ghoulish, depressing and scary. That poor woman, she deserved better than whatever tf we call this.
Scared and desperate people do scared and desperate things. For all we know, this was this guy’s only way of keeping a roof over his head.
I agree, but isn’t it strange that throwing her in a hole and throwing dirt on her, or burning her is considered the better treatment?
I think I’ve been duped by cultural customs.
For the dead person it doesn’t matter but for anyone else it’s better to put the rotting body where it doesn’t stink up the place.
how cultures treat the remains of the dead vary. wrapping your mom’s body in a sheet and hiding it in the house while you wear a wig and go to cash her checks isnt someone waking up from otherwise foolish death customs dude
You know what. Maybe it should be!
I have an idea for a bold new law. Let’s help desperate people, add more whimsy to the world, and maybe help some folks discover something about themselves.
New Law:
You can legally claim your dead relative’s social welfare benefits for up to five years after their death…but you have to dress up and present as them full time!Holy fuck I can’t stop laughing
It really wasn’t meant to be taken that seriously, haha. But I suppose you could tag me as woke to foolish death customs dude. It would be an interesting way to be introduced at a wake
Meh. It made sense in the wild. Can’t have animals digging up your loved ones. Now it’s more ceremonial but the idea is the same: It’s for the living not the dead
I’d have to agree with you. Personally, they can harvest what good organs I have left and do whatever they want with the rest. I feel like a lot of the traditions around death are there for the surviving friends and family not for the deceased. In this case, he was the surviving family member and honored her by dressing up like her and collecting her pension.
Okay but I’m having a hard time not finding humour in this. I mean shes dead, it’s not like she felt it or cared. Dude is a fucking FREAK for sure but like this as a situation, like that he even thought to do this and then executed this insane plan for pension money is absolutely bonkers nutso.
Like how long did he plan to keep this rouse going? There’s no way this works for longer than a year and then you’re going STRAIGHT to jail. And for what? A years worth of pension?
Tbh, I would actively authorize this for my next of kin if they wanted for a private pension. Doing it for public funds is fucked though. I would also stipulate that they be safe with the biohazard that is my corpse, because just keeping it in a bag in the living room is stomach turning.
No no no, it’s one of those Blue Zone things! It’s definitely not pension scams!
