IT’S BETTER TO FADE AWAY THAN TO BURN OUT

The land of the sideshow freaks (and I mean that in the best possible way) has another new attraction. Reports out of India claim that crowds are flocking to a remote village in Jharkhand state in order to catch a glimpse of a 103-year-old man who has been lying in his grave for the past six years waiting to die. After his wife died in the late 1990s, Basanta Roy dug his own grave near hers, and now spends his time lying in his grave, waiting to join her. (Reuters)