Sleeping with a dead wife

Heart breaking story.

There is still love in this cruel world of ours.

May she Rests in Peace and the man keeps being healthy till he meets her again and be with her forever.

Sorry Costas, but that isn't love. That is a mental illness.

Have you ever smelled a corpse that has been dead for even a few weeks? Ever seen one? They swell up and smell worse than anything you can imagine and insects feed on the body, hence the NEIGHBORS smelling her dead body. The guy clearly has a mental issue of some kind. 10 months is a long time to live with a swollen, rotting, smelly, insect infested dead person in your bed.

maybe he was a Taxidermist??

If he had preserved the body, then yes. But what makes it more creepy is how he just left his wife's remains rot away like that and felt OK going to sleep next to the rotting remains. I think that's the taboo part of this whole story for many people.

The body could have mummified in the warm/dry climate.

Loads of similar cases reported around the world ,this one from Belgium 2013 http://metro.co.uk/2013/11/20/warning-graphic-images-woman-sleeps-next-to-husbands-corpse-for-a-year-4193817/