Nadia Chetty is adamant: her dead husband can't be buried because he will be resurrected by God - so she's going to keep him at a Joburg funeral home for another year.
Sandton specialist Dr Gonasilan Chetty suffered a fatal heart attack at his parents' home in Malabar, Port Elizabeth, on August 10 last year.
His embalmed body has been stored at a Joburg funeral home for the last seven months.
Now Nadia has asked the funeral parlour director, Chadwin Kerr, whether he could keep her husband's body for another year.
The mother-of-two has already paid more than R35 000.
"I haven't been able to get hold of her. I want her to come and fetch her husband and bury him. But she called today and asked whether we can keep him for another year.
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"She is convinced that he will be resurrected. His family are distraught. They are going through hell," the undertaker said.
Chetty and his wife had been on holiday with their two children - a boy aged 10 and a girl aged eight - when he collapsed and died during a family lunch in Port Elizabeth.
The Chetty family were shocked and horrified when Nadia told them she had no intention of arranging a funeral, because her husband would be resurrected.
The couple had belonged to the Logos Bible Church in Centurion, and family members blame the church for misleading Nadia about her husband's return to life.
"Nadia is crying and praying over his body in the evenings," said a spokesman for Gonasilan's sister, who did not want to be named, speaking to an East London newspaper.
"She is a member of the Logos Church, which is a cult, and they are misleading her that they can resurrect her husband.
"She even leaves a phone there so that he can phone her when he wakes up.
"I think she's cuckoo," said the woman, who said the Chetty family were concerned about the couple's children. "She made her kids believe their dad is coming back."
The woman said the family were desperate for closure.
Last year, after media enquiries, Logos church pastor Shandrey Thumbran insisted that the church was not a cult.
Thumbran posted his answers to questions raised by the Sunday Times on the church's website.
He said he had never seen the doctor's body and had never charged Chetty for his prayers, as claimed in the media.
He said Nadia and Gona- silan had not only been members of his church, but were also good friends to him and his wife Reyahana.
Thumbran added that he had in no way influenced Nadia on her decision not to bury her husband.
"Nadia's response has come directly from her faith in God's Word that 'He will bring her husband back to life again'.
"When one considers what the Scriptures teach us concerning her position.
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