Is that crazy or sick love? You be the judge. I have done my best to think this is not true just to get the idea out of my head. After knowing all about body preservation, I don’t have a single doubt that this case could be a true story about a man who loved his wife way too much to keep her body preserved in a glass coffee table turning the corpse into a decoration/furniture. Many websites claim that this is not true as the idea along with the enclosed image are of extreme offensive nature to the dead.
This story originally appeared in the American tabloid Weekly World News, published first on Dec. 1, 1992, and then again in a May 1993 Collectors' Edition. It goes as follows:
Jeff Green is a 32 year old American in Arizona, whose wife passed away. Due to the great pain he suffered due to her death, he did something totally out of character for a normal and sane person. He said, "I could no longer take the pain that my wife's death has caused me, and I brought her back home." This is where Jeff's story takes a twisted turn. His wife, Lucy, was born with a heart condition that cut her life short at the young age of 29. Lucy's last words to Jeff were, "We will meet again in heaven."
These words served no consolation to Jeff's despair. At the funeral, in an act of desperation, Jeff decided that he would not let Lucy leave him.
"I called the cemetery caretaker and explained my feelings. I spoke with the authorities and got special permission to take my wife home with me. They thought it strange, but I was allowed to take her with me. I rather have her at home than seven feet under ground. Lucy had a great sense of humor and I'm sure she would appreciate being my coffee table."
Jeff ordered a special glass casing that eliminates the decomposition of a dead body along with embalming the body using the latest preservation methods. "It cost me about $6,000.00, but it was worth it." Some of his friends and relatives, filled with fear, stopped visiting Jeff. His true friends respected his decision and continue visiting him. Some even comment that it is a nice piece of furniture.
Apparently as some sources claim. Two years later, he started dating and fell in love with his new girlfriend that led him into selling his glass coffee table along with the corpse of his ex-dead-wife, at a garage sale, for a price of $216!!!
