Mortified Or What?

Is this becoming a craze?

I read these articles back to back on the Ananova site...

The first story depicts two brothers sharing a mobile home. For eighteen months, one conduted life as normal whilst the other lay decomposing in the spare room! The cognizant sibling, apparently, hadn't realised his big brother had slipped off his mortal coil. Didn't they have bills to share? All the extra air-freshener, rat poison and fly spray must have come to a tidy sum!
It then says that the police have ruled out suspicious circumstances. Well, why not? It all sounds completely run of the mill to me?

The other article tells of a wife sleeping with her dead hubby for nearly two years, because she couldn't bear to part with him... She either had a cast iron constitution with multiple sensory impairments, or she went here for a crash course!