In a shocking incident which took place in Kerala, a woman suffering from cancer spent the entire night next to her husband's dead body who committed suicde by hanging himself. The incident came to light when the cancer patient spent the night waiting helplessly for the police to take down the body due shift it to a nearby hospital for post moretem. But citing technicalities, the police refused to get the dead body down.

According to police officials, 67-year-old Joshi ended his life by committing suicide at his residence in Aluva, which was located opposite the rural police chief's official residence. Joshi's wife Lissy, a cancer patient undergoing chemotherapy was left shocked when she returned home from work to see her her husband hanging from the ceiling.