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Dublin (Reuters) - "An elderly Irishwoman shared a room with her sister's corpse for up to a year and sometimes slept with it in the same bed, newspapers reported Tuesday.
"Mary Ellen Lyons never told anyone that her sister Agnes had died, the reports said. Even their brother Michael, who lived in the same remote bungalow in rural western Ireland, did not know. An inquest heard Monday that Agnes probably died in 2002 -- possibly in September -- at the age of 70 ...
"'There is no way that Michael would open the door of a woman's room,' a neighbor told the inquest. 'They wouldn't even watch the television if there was a woman on it. They were from a different era.'"
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Dublin (Reuters) - "An elderly Irishwoman shared a room with her sister's corpse for up to a year and sometimes slept with it in the same bed, newspapers reported Tuesday.
"Mary Ellen Lyons never told anyone that her sister Agnes had died, the reports said. Even their brother Michael, who lived in the same remote bungalow in rural western Ireland, did not know. An inquest heard Monday that Agnes probably died in 2002 -- possibly in September -- at the age of 70 ...
"'There is no way that Michael would open the door of a woman's room,' a neighbor told the inquest. 'They wouldn't even watch the television if there was a woman on it. They were from a different era.'"
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