All Headline News – Romanian Woman Received Dad’s Remains By Mail – December 1, 2006 — An eye-roller. Makes you wonder about some cultures.

A Romanian woman is threatening to sue a local priest after receiving the remains of her dead father by post after a cemetery was sold to developers. A report by ananova.com says Aurelia Cenusa from Severin, Romania was informed of the clergy in her father’s hometown of Darvari, some 300 miles away, that the graveyard where her father was buried, has been sold and his body exhumed.She said the priest asked her to come over to collect the remains of her father, the late Rafaila Cojocaru, or the clergy will send it by mail. Cenusa thought the priest was just joking.

She told ananova.com, “I had entered a lottery a few weeks ago and when I got the large parcel I thought I had won something. Instead I opened it up to find a banana crate containing the bones of my dead father. You could still even see bits of his funeral suit even though he died 16 years ago.”