Hans Rausing lived with his dead wife for two months

girl in the striped socks

Apologies for not having a link to the story but I'm on my phone so would appreciate if someone could help me out.

Anyway, heir to billions Hans Rausing admitted to living with his wife's corpse because he didnt want her to leave. Obviously enough he has serious problems. The really sad part is that when her badly decomposed body was found her parents were in the room.

Personally I wonder is this something he can ever get over. It's disturbing to say the least but he was obviously very ill & under the influence of class a drugs.

He got two years off the road for drug driving, fined one thousand pounds & committed to a rehab unit for two years.

So what are your thoughts on this?

Colmustard

Yeah apparently he had a lot of WD40.

harney

girl in the striped socks wrote: »

....So what are your thoughts on this?

A shag's a shag?

Kylo Ren

He definitely attached strings on her hands and used her as a puppet.

gaelicred

My ex wife was dead for the last 6 months of our marriage in the bedroom at least:D

3rdDegree

harney wrote: »

girl in the striped socks wrote: »

....So what are your thoughts on this?

A shag's a shag?

Speaking of which, you should read up on what happened to Eva Peron's (sp) body.

Lollers

Heres a link.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/aug/01/hans-kristian-rausing-wife-body

mattjack

girl in the striped socks wrote: »

Apologies for not having a link to the story but I'm on my phone so would appreciate if someone could help me out.

Anyway, heir to billions Hans Rausing admitted to living with his wife's corpse because he didnt want her to leave. Obviously enough he has serious problems. The really sad part is that when her badly decomposed body was found her parents were in the room.

Personally I wonder is this something he can ever get over. It's disturbing to say the least but he was obviously very ill & under the influence of class a drugs.

He got two years off the road for drug driving, fined one thousand pounds & committed to a rehab unit for two years.

So what are your thoughts on this?

Can I see your socks ?

girl in the striped socks

mattjack wrote: »

girl in the striped socks wrote: »

Apologies for not having a link to the story but I'm on my phone so would appreciate if someone could help me out.

Anyway, heir to billions Hans Rausing admitted to living with his wife's corpse because he didnt want her to leave. Obviously enough he has serious problems. The really sad part is that when her badly decomposed body was found her parents were in the room.

Personally I wonder is this something he can ever get over. It's disturbing to say the least but he was obviously very ill & under the influence of class a drugs.

He got two years off the road for drug driving, fined one thousand pounds & committed to a rehab unit for two years.

So what are your thoughts on this?

Can I see your socks ?

Look at your own& Imagine stripes.

le la rat

Drugs are bad mmmmmmkay

Kylo Ren

3rdDegree wrote: »

Speaking of which, you should read up on what happened to Eva Peron's (sp) body.

You are just going to end up turning him on for god's sake.

Ronin247

Apparently the judge wanted to jail him for having sex with her dead body but his lawyers got him off with the defence

I didnt know she was dead, she hasnt moved during sex for years....

Pottler

Ah sure, it's an easy mistake to make. "Dead? Jasus, I thought she was a bit quiet."
Anyway, isn't the whole tetrapak ethos keeping stuff fresh for ages?

Squ

3rdDegree wrote: »

Speaking of which, you should read up on what happened to Eva Peron's (sp) body.

What does (sp) mean?

Where To

Squ wrote: »

What does (sp) mean?

Starting Price.

The person who wrote that is a turf accountant.

Intensive Care Bear

Sad story,i hope he gets the help he needs.

Boombastic

Squ wrote: »

What does (sp) mean?

Either

'Suppressive Person' as coined by self-proclaimed Scientologist, Tom Cruise in the ever increasingly popular interview seen on youtube where he can not control his laughter and brags about stopping to help people who are in accidents along the highway.

(Sexual) service provider; courtesan; prostitute
The Canadian Escort Review Board has a SP-only section to warn each other of bad johns.

or

SP
Sex Party

The #1 answer to all the questions.
John: Hey, what did we do in class yesterday?
Brasil: SP.
John: Bitch! Don't lie to me!

Pottler

Is it "suspiciously pale"?

ArtyM

Maybe I am the only one, but I find this terribly tragic.

However rich they were, this is the story of people with much promise who were utterly consumed by drugs and personal demons.
That they could descend to such depths - alone, given what wealth they had, is so sad.

Most of us dream of winning the lottery, assuming it will solve all our problems. These guys were worth thousands of our weekly lottery draws yet still ended up like this.

Apparently she was a lovely and generous person, shame that is not what she will be remembered for.

getzls

gaelicred wrote: »

My ex wife was dead for the last 6 months of our marriage in the bedroom at least:D

Not in my bedroom she wasn;t.:cool:

Shryke

What happened is awful but there is no victim BS to buy into unless it is proved that he husband suffers a mental disorder. Do not pander to an addict.

As far as it goes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PR_rzF8ofw

DEFTLEFTHAND

The man is obviously deeply troubled and I feel pity for him. He won't live much longer himself if he doesn't address his problems, starting with the intense social anxiety which has led to his rampant drug addiction.

Money doesn't make you happy. The old cliche seems apt in this case.

Jesus Wept

Very sad stuff. :-(

grenache

Many of these gruesome events seem to be coming out of Germany/Austria/Switzerland. Germanic countries in other words. Coincidence?


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/7983464/Natascha-Kampusch-autobiography-I-was-beaten-and-forced-to-share-a-bed-with-kidnapper.html


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/joseffritzl/5007280/Josef-Fritzl-trial-Daughter-Elisabeth-describes-24-years-of-abuse.html


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2030047/Austrias-new-Fritzl-Father-kept-mentally-ill-daughters-sex-prisoners-room-41-years.html


http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,714339,00.html


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2141177/Swiss-politician-placed-ad-cannibal-kill-eat-wife-daughter-policeman-friend.html

Jesus Wept

This is a completely different thing to Fritzel ffs. Ditto kidnapping, abuse and cannibalism.

It's a person having a massive breakdown due to intense grief.

up for anything

Her resting place, the court heard, was a squalid room to which entry was banned for anyone but the couple, and which for the last four years had become their home as they retreated from the world in the grip of a drug addiction that had blighted their adult lives.

His wife had not long returned from California on 29 April, and had seen her financial adviser on 3 May, because she had been concerned about her husband's increasingly chaotic lifestyle.

Rausing's only human contact was with his wife, on whom he was completely dependant, the barrister said.

It seems to me from the small amount of information given in the article that his wife was a functioning addict. I wouldn't need to look to far for a motive if this was a CSI episode.

During a search of his six-storey home in Cadogan Place later police noticed the staff were hesitant when they asked for access to the second-floor annex.

The staff must have been fairly suspicious themselves. I wonder why they didn't mention the smell and then not seeing her for two months when she seemed to be the person who was in control enough to have contact with them and the outside world. And why were her parents allowed to be present when the search was taking place especially once the smell alerted the police to the fact that there was a decomposing body somewhere on the premises?

Tests showed the presence of cocaine, morphine, temazepam and diazepam in his body.

Rausing also admitted driving while under the influence of drugs, and received a two-month concurrent suspended jail sentence for the offence.

One law for the rich and one for the poor - a two month suspended sentence for driving under the influence of drugs! Is there not a law yet where it's a mandatory two year off the road sentence for drugs as well as alcohol?

Wow that's incredibly sad

Grief is one of the strongest emotions anyone will ever experience in their life, it can entirely change your view on reality. The poor man must have been going through hell.

Lollers

ArtyM wrote: »

Apparently she was a lovely and generous person, shame that is not what she will be remembered for.

Yep, apprently she was a very generous donator to charities dealing with addiction.

up for anything

up for anything wrote: »

One law for the rich and one for the poor - a two month suspended sentence for driving under the influence of drugs! Is there not a law yet where it's a mandatory two year off the road sentence for drugs as well as alcohol?

Look no further than "tragic" Katy French. But your local neighbourhood cocaine addict is just a scumbag.

Bad Panda

grenache wrote: »

Many of these gruesome events seem to be coming out of Germany/Austria/Switzerland. Germanic countries in other words. Coincidence?


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/7983464/Natascha-Kampusch-autobiography-I-was-beaten-and-forced-to-share-a-bed-with-kidnapper.html


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/joseffritzl/5007280/Josef-Fritzl-trial-Daughter-Elisabeth-describes-24-years-of-abuse.html


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2030047/Austrias-new-Fritzl-Father-kept-mentally-ill-daughters-sex-prisoners-room-41-years.html


http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,714339,00.html


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2141177/Swiss-politician-placed-ad-cannibal-kill-eat-wife-daughter-policeman-friend.html

Yes.

Loopy

Deleted User wrote: »

Wow that's incredibly sad

Grief is one of the strongest emotions anyone will ever experience in their life, it can entirely change your view on reality. The poor man must have been going through hell.

I agree, I'd say he's been out of it since it happened. Although, the smell was obviously bad enough for him to do something.

"There was a bed and on top of it a pile of clothes and other material. It was under this pile of clothes that a body in an advanced state of decomposition was found.

"It was noted subsequently that some deodorising powder had been used on the clothing and items on top of the body,"

I have followed this story since it broke. What I can't understand is, there is hardly a mention of the 4 kids at all.

Loopy

Loopy wrote: »

I have followed this story since it broke. What I can't understand is, there is hardly a mention of the 4 kids at all.

might be trying to keep them out of the whole circus

Ellis Dee

Life's a bitch when you're a billionaire. Good job there aren't, relatively speaking, too many of them around!:)'

I feel really sorry for Rausing for having screwed up his life so thoroughly and for the loss of his wife and the undignified way in which her body was left for months.

However, both of them are victims of their own self-indulgence. Both came from wealthy backgrounds and met in a drug rehabilitation clinic. Thus neither can be blamed for introducing the other to drugs. And it certainly wasn't social deprivation that drove them to addiction.:cool:

As Shakespeare pointed out. "He is as sick who surfeits with too much as he who starves with nothing."

They just wanted to overdo everything, and their wealth and power meant that few were prepared to tell them to slow down a bit. They could easily get hold of and afford the drugs that so many in sink housing estates have to struggle to get hold of every day.

There was also an element of greed involved. A point made only peripherally in media reports was that Rausing is a tax exile from Sweden. Sweden has a high rate of tax to help support its excellent welfare state, but even after paying the full rate of tax on his vast income from the Tetra-Pak industrial empire, he would still have been a fabuoiusly rich man.

In Sweden, too, his open use of drugs would never have been tolerated in the wealthy circles in which he would have moved there, unlike the UK, where it seems the super-rich can get away with anything.

But greed took over and the new Thatcherite society in the UK beckoned.:(

It's such a sad story. But the ones I really feel sorry for are those who get hooked on drugs and may have to wait months to get into a programme to try and klick the habit. Rausing and his kind can book into any fancy five-star clinic any time. If they can't get their lives back on track with all that support, what chance has Decko the smack addict?

Hogata

Must be love

grenache

Bad Panda wrote: »

Yes.

I don't.

later12

In an odd sort of way, I can see his mindset.

When my terrier had to be put to sleep a few years back, I slept with him and kept him in my bed for almost two days. As warped as it sounds now, I even wanted to get a taxidermist to preserve him.

I've never experienced that sort of loss on a human level, but if it's anything similar, you just don't want to let them go, because to do so is to admit what has happened.

Unfortunately, this story has turned into something of a grotesque spectacle, when in reality it is just a very sad case of a very traumatised man not thinking straight at a time of great loss; I'm sure nobody set out to cause any deliberate damage here. I really think the media should allow the family to now grieve in private. Nice to see so many of the posts here are sympathetic to the husband.

Lyaiera

up for anything wrote: »

One law for the rich and one for the poor - a two month suspended sentence for driving under the influence of drugs! Is there not a law yet where it's a mandatory two year off the road sentence for drugs as well as alcohol?

There are penniless heroin addicts who rob people every second week and only get a few nights in a police cell before the courts set them free. Don't start on this absolute ****ing horse**** about how people are different and treated differently. This is the utmost case of some man in the ultimate of desparity who has been treated with humanity by the courts. He lost the one true love in his life. Who gives a flying **** if he was a billionaire, pauper or someone meeting his mortgage every month. This is a story of a drug addict, someone who was lost to something as amazing and evil as narcotics and who had the privilege afforded to them of a mansion to hide his dead wife's body in. Can you imagine if a heroin addict was traumatised by his heroin addict wife dying with him? Every support group in the country would be out in the papers and tv stations demanding that something more be done for the hugely unfortunate drug addicts in the country. In any ****ing country?

The problem is the state. Let's help these people. If someone robs someone for drug money, then that's an awful thing. But some people just want revenge in that scenario. Do you really think life living in scummy flats, with needles broken across the floor, with rats and strung out people moaning is a life anyone deserves to live? Think about this... That's the life some people choose to live because they see no better for themselves. They have no hope beyond that. This is a guy who lived with his decomposing wife's body for two months because he couldn't face losing her. That's sad. That's more that sad that's awful and horrific. This isn't law for them and us. This is law for the poor people who with or without huge sums of money have to face an horrendous life. They are living a horrific life. There are so many people in Ireland these days living an horrendous life whether they be drug addicts, or simply surviving on the dole, or facing mortgage payments, or working 18 hours a day to give their children what their children deserve. No-one should have to put up with this. No-one should have to face a life where they're not afforded every opportunity that is possible. That means sentencing a drug addled billionaire to rehab just as much as it means doing the same for a drug addled inner city addict. But most of all it means you and I should be demanding that people are treated like ****ing people, with honesty, decency and humanity.

Madam_X

grenache wrote: »

I don't.

So what argument would you put forward? You believe Germanic societies create the conditions for people to do gruesome things like those you listed?

This particular case seems like the result of someone being in the depths of grief and loneliness and mental breakdown - human, not specifically Germanic.

Dave!

later12 wrote: »

In an odd sort of way, I can see his mindset.

When my terrier had to be put to sleep a few years back, I slept with him and kept him in my bed for almost two days. As warped as it sounds now, I even wanted to get a taxidermist to preserve him.

I've never experienced that sort of loss on a human level, but if it's anything similar, you just don't want to let them go, because to do so is to admit what has happened.

Unfortunately, this story has turned into something of a grotesque spectacle, when in reality it is just a very sad case of a very traumatised man not thinking straight at a time of great loss; I'm sure nobody set out to cause any deliberate damage here. I really think the media should allow the family to now grieve in private. Nice to see so many of the posts here are sympathetic to the husband.

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