Modern society and Mortality

[magic452]

The very same thing happened to my brother but a much shorter time, about 9 days. Happened just before Thanksgiving 2008.

He did not answer the door or the phone if he was asleep and he slept all hours of the day and night so I didn't find it strange that he didn't answer the door the two times I went over. I had him on a cash basis since he'd had a stroke and wasn't fully aware. I had not given him any money for better than a week so I checked his ATM card and found it hadn't been used.

My son lives very close so I had him check and they did find him dead in the kitchen. Massive stroke, was dead before he hit the floor as when he fell he hit his head but almost no bleeding from a big cut.

I still can see him laying on the floor and it saddens me to this day.

Sorry for your loss Oberon, I can understand how you feel.

Magic

[Torplexed]

Couple of days ago I was listening to a radio interview with a guy who's business in Los Angeles was as a "cleaner". His job was to go into apartments, private homes, and hotel rooms where a death had taken place and make things all spic 'n span. It's not the duty of the police to clean things up after a death, homicide or suicide. You do it yourself or hire someone. A lot of his jobs involved bodies that laid forgotten on floors or in chairs for months or weeks. After listening to some of the squalid conditions and smells he described in some of these homes I had to switch the interview off.

Sorry for your loss Oberon. Seems strange that OBL can get a dignified burial at sea while ordinary chaps who didn't cause any mischief die isolated and alone.