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Patna, a remote village in the Jharkhand state of eastern India has become an unlikely destination for sightseers. The village’s leading attraction is a man who’s spent the past six years lying in a grave he dug for himself, waiting to die.

Basanta Roy, who is thought to be 103, dug his grave close to the spot where his wife is buried – she died in the late 1990s. Roy spends the day clearing weeds from his grave site and keeping it tidy. The rest of his time, he spends lying in the grave, mourning his wife.

Shyam Narayan Ram, a senior government official in the area commented, “He cleans his grave each day and waits for his death, which seems to be eluding him.”

Makes you wonder if Death is like a city bus - if you wait ten years, will five come along at once?