It's What He Would Have Wanted
Mark Voegel's pets killed him and then ate him. Very gruesome story from The Mirror.
'More than 200 spiders, several snakes, a gecko called Helmut and several thousand termites gorged on their former master for days.
Helmut, eh? ...and what kind of freak keeps termites as pets?

'Police found the remains of 30-year-old loner Voegel draped across a sofa, covered in giant cobwebs'.
"Spiders were running all over him," said a spokesman. "They were coming out of his nose and mouth. Larger pieces of flesh had been torn off by the lizards and were taken back to the webs of tarantulas and other bird-eating spiders.'

Is it just me or do these kind of things always seem to happen in Germany?

I just hope that Whiskers the rat (see below) doesn't get any nasty ideas - I doubt it though, she's just about the friendliest critter I've ever met.