Not that long ago, we had a report on how expensive it is to die in Japan.

Apparently a family in Kagawa Prefecture on Japan’s island of Shikoku did not want to bear high funeral costs when the father of the family passed away, and so they simply planted him in the garden.

A 59-year-old man and his 85-year-old mother were arrested Sunday on suspicion of abandoning the body of his father by burying it in the yard of his home in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture.

A skeletonized body was dug up from the yard Saturday. The suspects were identified as Fumio Makizuka, a part-time shop attendant, and his mother, Fumiko. Investigators suspect the body is that of Buntaro Makizuka, 93.

The son was quoted by police as saying he hid the body because he could not afford a funeral and did not want his father’s pension benefits to stop coming.

According to the son the man died of old age.