My husband recently came back from a business trip. While he was there he heard the news that a man who worked in a funeral home in that city was arrested for having intimate and unprofessional conduct with one of the bodies. I remember hearing about something like this in the town I grew up in. Necrophilia is extremely rare.
Regular necrophilia occurs when a person has sex with a deceased person.
Necrophiliac fantasy involves a person fantasizing about having sex with the deceased person, but does not act on it. Necrophiliac homicide involves killing a person in order to have sex with the person. It is thought that the main motivation for someone engaging in these activities is to sexually possess a partner with whom there is no chance of rejection or resistance. Almost all necrophiliacs are male, and most are severely mentally ill. They often try to obtain jobs that would bring them into contact with dead bodies, such as at cemeteries, funeral homes or morgues.