I am not judging the man. His motives may be unconventional, but so be it. However, the concept of marrying someone who did not agree (she didn't say "I do") is not possible.

That's the weirdest thing I've read all day, and I'm very grateful for that.

I agree. I would post this under 'hopelessly romantic', a symbolic act, and not one to be conjured up with twisted images of consummation of necrophilia. After all 'sleeping beauty' is one of those tales in where a prince kisses a corpse in a glass coffin, although he obviously had no history with her... and how many heart-broken mothers or grieving lovers refuse to immediately let go of their loved ones, crying, holding, hugging and kissing on them... in the minutes, hours, even days after their death.

Those who have never known true love or are quick to judge other cultures may cling to the clinically-macabre title of the article, but the truth seems rather sentimental...

Now, on the other hand, if this 'adoration' went any further... and I had a friend living in a very old (haunted) house, whose first owner, a doctor, was reportedly keeping his mummified wife in a coffin... now that's where it get's seriously creepy!

What is this? I don't even-

~takes a shot of whiskey~

Kinda sick, kinda sweet, kinda sad, kinda unsure why he'd post pictures of this anywhere, but to each their own. Ultimately, he's expressing his love for this woman in the only way he can since she's passed and there's really nothing wrong with that.

Smeagol - Snow White was assumed dead and placed in a glass coffins by the 7 dwarfs (not Sleeping Beauty). If the guy weren't a television director who posted the photos and video of the event to Facebook and YouTube I would say devoted even in death. But btwn his advertising it and the fact that he's in entertainment business, his actions are tainted w/ an unbecoming degree of publicity.

Are you serious?? This is what you take away from this story saddness?? Yikes

Rockmebritney, agreed. This is sad.

and post photos and video of the event to Facebook and YouTube is drawing mixed reaction from the public.

And yet he was surprised about the "public backlash". Doing weird or different things is one thing. To broadcast and make it public is what makes this guy STRANGE...and possibly seeking fame or attention. After all he is a TV director.

10 years. For 10 years this man loved this woman, yet never took the plunge. Then she died, and he's finally trying to pick up the pieces of a love and existence he didn't fully cherish until it was too late. I'm sure if people lived through this scenario, the schadenfreude that my fellow humans are displaying would be quieted quickly. Afterall, it's freaky until it happens to us. Then suddenly we want sympathy for the tragedy in our lives, when we wouldn't afford it to anyone else.

The great state of Missouri, in the mid America, once upon a time, elected a dead man as senator, so why not???

This is a good reminder for all of us to do the things we want and need to do now. We are not promised tomorrow.

Get back to us after the honeymoon ???

another person wanting a limelight, put him in an asylum, and do it quickly, the corpse didnt consent, so the marriage is invalid. if they valid it, then heck why not marry an animal.

That's gonna really suck when he has to consummate the marriage .... YUK..

Seems if he really wanted to commit to her he could ahve done it 8 years earlier when she was still alive.

I had a good friend married a very pretty red-head; on the honeymoon, he thought she was dead; marriage did not last 6 months.

You get paid per view on utube dont know about the other

since when does marriage have to do with commitment oh that could be your blood diamond thinking that marriage actually makes a difference about how you feel about your partner. How many deaths of famous people are advertised on tv and in the media where hundreds of thousands show up to a funeral to pay the respects to the dead how is that any different. Obviously they were commited to each other for 10 years. How many people actually keep the ashes of people in Urns in their house. People who also die daily make the news after their death does that mean the people putting them on the tv in the media are sick because it is basically the same thing advertising the death of someone. All marriage does is help to keep the poor people mining diamonds poor, and the rich white boys rich.

Wonder if she gave him a stiffy....

i wonder if...anybody cried at the wedding...

Nothing wrong with this! I sleep with a dead woman every night, Her feet and hands are so cold and she just lays there! Besides Jewish men have been doing it for hundreds of years.

@Frankly True. Gay couples may be able to say I do...but they can't have babies...I'm not sure what you made in Biology, but I assure you gay couples CAN NOT have babies. They can adopt. They can go through a surrogate, but they can not procreate. With that said. I happen to agree with the intent of your message. I still don't believe there should be a law on the books allowing it. They should go through a church or a judge that will marry them. If they have one of those two willing to marry them then it should be good enough for all.

Since she was laid out in the open, would it be considered an 'Open marriage'? SC Republicans would have no problems with this arrangement.

Did the article really say, as she lay in a coffin in a "wedding-cum-funeral"? That's funny.

Ah and there is the politics brought into it, I knew it wouldn't take long.

In that part of the world she would have been getting funky really fast if she was not kept cold or preserved in some manner. I think this was just a stunt for you tube.

Sorry but I am as hopelessly romantic as the next person ( I would hope so as the author of 14 romance novels), however, this woman looks far to preserved to be a deceased anything. In their world where food and water is scarce, I find it hard to believe she was kept so remarkable maintained just for this. I am inclined to go with Jack Mayhofer, There is the rotten smell (no pun intended) of a facebook stunt. I looked through his profile, for someone so in love with her, he has only two pics of her, and both are of her deceased. And if this was simply in the vein that he wanted to right a wrong, that was between, her, him and their families. Putting that on Facebook is a way to attract attention to a budding director and nothing more. Didn't they also say he had also been with her for ten years previous to this? He had more than enough opportunity, this is bull sorry.

Bert: I think my wife's dead.

Harry: Uh, you THINK your wife's dead?

Bert: Yup. The sex is the same, but the dishes keep piling up.

Sick and hurtful is what I think of most of you. My husband/boyfriend of 15 years died @ the age of 39 from a fatal heart attack-3.5 hrs he lay in agony knowing he was going to die. I was so distraught, I climbed into his coffin @ his funeral. My mother had to slap me in the face and take me outside. That was in 2006, I still miss him every day all day long and so do our children! I agree he was wrong to air his woes publicly for all the world to view but people do weird things when they are in Emotional Mind! Cut him and all the world a little slack. Like you're perfect and NEVER have done anything stupid!!!

He'll have to carry that heavy coffin over the threshhold. Good luck with that!

My wife has been a walking corpse for years.... LOL

seriously, did he ask the father for permission? did his family attend? her family? i thought you had to confirm your vows, who the hell even performed this marriage?

Right! If I was there and the chick said yes, I would run for the hills.

our media does this daily as proven with this article yet you dont critisize them for doing the exact same thing. Yet you will critisize this man for doing it as you are responding to a post that is doing the exact same thing.

also if i was this guy i would sue msnbc for putting his video on their site i guarantee they dont have the copyrights of this guys work to put up his video here. And yes they are making money off posting the same video people are critisizing this guy for.

gamer4life: I think what recklesscoot was meant is if it was just to right a wrong then why did the man who lost his girlfriend make a public display of it? It's not like Chadil Deffy tried to do it privately then the media got wind of it and reported it. He decided to do it very publicly. If you wanted to just right a wrong to settle your conscious or try to do right by someone even after they've gone would you feel the need to make a large public display of it not just on one of the biggest social media outlets (Facebook) but You Tube as well? If Chadil Deffy was seriously only trying to do right by her he could have easily done so without the publicity. It seems he was purposely looking for the attention because HE reported it instead of the other way around. I haven't read very many comments so I'm probably just repeating what a bunch of others have stated so apologies for that. I'm new here.

Also: If he didn't make his video "private" on You Tube then msn can post it here all they like. (You Tube's TOS explains it further) It benefits Chadil Deffy in the form of free publicity. HE can make money off of his video on You Tube as well.

Bingo.

Nothing more than HEY LOOK AT MEEEEEE

Wow, all the people who are upset about his not doing this privately sure are having fun sticking their noses into this article, watching the videos, commenting, etc. The media is only as prolific as the audience lets it be. It's very Petunia Dursleyish of everyone to bash this guy and complain about all the publicity they're giving him.

That being said, maybe the couple had talked about having a photographer and someone to make a video of their wedding. He could just be following through with their plans. My friend plastered the web with her boring wedding videos and pics, but nobody cared because there was nothing unusual about it.

We don't know this guy or anything about their relationship so we can't really criticize him for how he handles his grief.

Ok Berecca, so when do we get to see the pics of your next dead relatives funeral? Why not, perhaps this person was a celebrity and it would be everyday for them? Taking her pics and plastering them on the web of her dead in any connotation is wrong. Where was her consent form showing she allowed this?

She said, "I do!"

She said " I died "

She said, "I'll have to think about it.. gimme a few years".

oh my gosh !....but she is dead .... his motive are misguided. She is dead .......cold fact.

You have a deplorable imagination. She'll be buried or cremated. He was righting a wrong that occurred when she was killed in the car accident. Did you bother to read the article?

Maybe he will. But don't call him Shirley.

If he hits one of the cops with her, will he be arrested for assault with a dead weapon?

:)

I hear her head spun around right before she said "I did"....

Oh for god sakes, HE LOVED HER??? then posted her dead body on you tube and facebook. Hey Tiffany I've got a some really nice property in the everglades I can sell you for real cheap!!!!!

I agree that what he did with the publicity was wrong. He should have kept it private. If he did it for fame (Which I am sure he did), then yes, I agree it is wrong to go about it that way. But if he did love her, my whole point of my post was just to say, that if they had wanted to get married, what was wrong with actually getting married after her accident?

Hopeless romantic or macabre publicity hound? Yes, he is probably both.

I mean really, how in the hell do you marry a corpse ??

I agree with other posters...if this is just "righting a wrong" then he should have done it privately (without the world watching) This man is SICK. He needs help. There are many romantic situations to write about, this is not romantic or sad...it is tragic that this mans grief has caused him to go insane!

Right a wrong? it took ten years to decide he loved her enough to marry her? Come on people, get a grip. This is a slap in the face to all of us who truly love our spouses. He did it for publicity plain and simple. If he had done it strictly for love he would not have posted the video on Facebook/Youtube. Is this how low our society has dipped? It is sad however. She loses her life in a tragic accident and then this sick pos makes money from her death. Feel sadness for her. Not for this lamer.

True, if he didnt already have ten years to do so before this. Couldnt have loved her that much.

I bet Maury Povich already has him booked.

With you, perhaps. That means little to to those of us with compassion.

Compassion is nice but come on, this was a publicity stunt. He's in entertainment and he put it on facebook and youtube but none of this seems suspicious in relation to his motives?

Peridot are you compassionate or gullible or a sap. The story would be sad if he didn't make a show of his love for this poor woman and post her dead body on you tube for everyone to gawk at. The title Corpse Bride, tell me do you find that romantic and sweet? I bet you it brought tears to you eyes didn't it.

So do most others who upload videos to Utube. We live in an age where people share private crap that should be kept private all the time!! It's like keeping a diary of ones life for all to see!

Well, now. Did you watch the video, Sosad? Were you unable to resist?

I feel compassion for them, yet I didn't watch the video. I knew it would be distressing. Did you watch it? Did it disgust you? Is that what's really upsetting you about all this?

I could tell enough of the story from him holding her hand that Deff loved Anne dearly. That was enough of the story for me.

To all you people complaining that they should have gotten married before now: really? You're damning the both of them for not being clairvoyant. That's Monday morning quarterbacking. Had they married young, had kids and were he now a single father unable to support them without a mum, you'd all be damning him for that. What would you do differently in your lives if you could see the future? Don't tell me nothing, everyone has some regrets. Everyone.

Remember this: Not even God can change the past.

None of us are given more than one day to live at a time. It's sad that this couple weren't able to marry while Anne was alive. Deff tried to honour both their wishes by creating a new ceremony before the usual funeral ritual, whatever that is there. Was he right or wrong in this? Who are we to judge him?

A lovely young woman has died. A young man mourns her in his special way. As a director of films Deff has memorialised Anne forever. There are as many ways to create memories as there are people in this world. There are 7 billions of humans on this planet today. That means there are 7 billion ways to remember the dead people we have loved.

In the United States of America, many people claim to respect human life and other people, but there's little evidence here. One wonders how many of you will be remembered as well or as long.

If the moments everyone all over the world spent watching the video were to be added together, they might add up to a normal lifespan for Anne.

Perhaps that's the true gift Deff was offering to Anne by posting this video. If that was what he meant to do, then perhaps I should add my offering to the rest by watching the video myself, giving my moments to Anne to increase her gift from her spouse.

I must consider this. I dislike weeping and I know this will make me weep.

I didnt watch the video Peridot cause I wasnt goint to waste the three mins to figure out its bull spit. Either they have incredible undertakers there, or she is no more dead than you or I. This woman is to remarkable preserved for any of this to be true. The title of his pic album alone, and lack of any pic of her alive in his fb says this is all crap. I love my husband, I cant imagine calling him my dead groom and plastering pics of FB, and in ten years I think I can scrounge up a alive pic to put on my FB. Its all crap.

Hey, look at this way, he probably didn't have to put a big ring on her finger and she probably wasn't drunk on their wedding night ??

keep your relatives out of this Lombardian..

They're gonna spend the Weekend at Bernie's!

Dude! Touche! :)

Good one Brent, Very good indeed LMAO.........Enjoy your Football tommorow........ROLL GIANTS ROLL!!!!!!!!!!

Too Funny Lmao. You gotta have a sense of humor to get threw a life with so many sickos in it!!!!

Very nice tie-in Brent, very nice indeed.

I can understand that he is keeping his promise to marry her because he loves her still... Totally unusual but totally hopeless romantic.....

He wanted to share his intentions.... some people are more open the others....that's all....

Anyways it is his life and her family did not object so who am I to say anything negative ?

Nice one Brent!

Bernie gave the bride away.

"Relax dear, you seem a bit cold and stiff. Is there something wrong? I promise it will not hurt."

I think instead of marring a corps...

QE137 - I hope that you mean "corpse". It might be difficult to marry an entire corps of anything, whether Army corps, press corps, etc.

"It might be difficult to marry an entire corps of anything, whether Army corps, press corps, etc."

Bt if there's a buck in it, I'm sure one (or more) of the Kardashians would try it.

Excellent point, StoneCold!

The story: creepy and weird, and IMO, solely a publicity stunt. Regarding the "corp" comment, marrying a corp is like marrying a troop. But then why do we use the word "troop" to define a single member of a unit? As in "15,000 troops deployed." It should be "15,000 soldiers deployed" and "15 troops" to define how many units. Look it up, quite frustrating for grammatically correct English users.

Stup ....

LOL !! There's many women that are alive and do the same thing.

Oops, Eastside, that's not u is it ??? LOL

Eastside: If a live woman is just lying there, perhaps it's because the man is lacking something......

Ginny-- Right on gal.

hahaha:)

At least he knew she was dead in bed before the wedding night.

I can relate to that... LOL

what divorce? Marriage was annulled immediately when officiator quoted "till death do us part"...

And then there's the whole "consummating the marriage" thing. Don't need a divorce if you haven't poked your beloved. Hopefully he doesn't have Youtube proof of that happening.

He's still alive.

Annulled? If that is the case, then their children will get nothing.

Poor maggots