September 17, 2005

FRENCH FAMILY VALUES:

Frenchman lived with dead mother to keep pension (Reuters, 9/17/05)

A Frenchman in his sixties lived for five years with the body of his dead mother to keep receiving her 700 euros (473 pounds) monthly pension, judicial sources said on Saturday.

Posted by Orrin Judd at September 17, 2005 9:03 AM
Comments

It happens in the US too.

Posted by: Robert Schwartz [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 17, 2005 9:19 AM

So in France, corpses can receive pension checks only if their kids are still living with them? We have the "death tax," they have the "burial tax."

Posted by: pj at September 17, 2005 10:23 AM

. . . and she voted in every election since her death, too!

Won't let that minor problem get in the way of her "rights".

Posted by: obc at September 17, 2005 12:09 PM

If he could have just married her (dead or alive) , then he'd have been eligible for surviving spouse benefits and he could have properly dumped her at the morgue.

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at September 17, 2005 12:20 PM

Raoul -

Only if it was his mother-in-law - not his mother.

Posted by: obc at September 17, 2005 4:41 PM

Wasn't there a movie on the subject: Psycho?

Posted by: Genecis at September 17, 2005 8:45 PM
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