Man Lay Dead In His Flat For 3 Years

[mikey4444]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2271889/Man-lay-dead-flat-TWO-YEARS-cleaners-turned-clear-home.html

Isn't this awful ? Surely one of his neighbours should have noticed ?

And why did the Housing Association wait 3 years, without receiving any rent, before raising some concern ? Can you really go without paying your rent for 3 years, with impunity ?

[jno]

if your neighbour was a heavy drinker you might be quietly relieved if he seemed to have gone away for a while. Not everyone has family, friends or neighbours checking up on them.

[Broseph]

What a horrible and sad story. You're right, the most of us don't pay the electric,council tax,rent,water etc.. and then suddenly have a troup of money collecting goons at our doors 1 second after payment was meant to be made.

R.I.P Simon Allen. Gone but not unnoticed or forgotten. (Except by the idiotic powers that be)

[mikey4444]

No, I understand that jno, but it is the lack of action on behalf of his landlords that surprises me. You would have thought that they would have done more, and possibly started eviction processes, long before 3 years had gone by.

[hc4361]

His rent had not been paid for several months, not years.
It is very likely he was paying by direct debit and that continued for some time after he died. As he was around 50 I suspect he was in receipt of some sort of benefits and had his money cut off when he failed to attend interviews.

[Baldric]

From your unread link Mikey, it wasn't 3 years

///Eleven days earlier his landlord and bailiffs had gone to the first-floor property to check why his *rent had not been paid for several months*.///

[mikey4444]

Thanks hc....I suppose that makes sense.

[trt]

And there's his electric, gas and water bills to be paid, unless paid for by somebody else.

[hc4361]

Also paid by DD. It is possible he had a prepayment meter for his electricity and of course it just wasn't topped up after he died and there was no arrears.

[agchristie]

Very sad on a number of fronts. You don't expect this sort of thing but you do hear it from time to time. Must have been a mountain of post and leaflets etc

[sp1814]

mikey4444

I saw a documentary ('Dreams of Life') on Netflix last year about a woman who also lay dead in her flat for three years.

Utterly sad and depressing, but a product of our increasingly disconnected world. I've always assumed that everyone is in some way connected to someone else, be they family, friends, co-workers or social services...

But some people literally fall through the cracks.

There was an actor (Terry Sue-Patt) who used to be in Grange Hill who died alone earlier this year. His body wasn't discovered for a month.

[rsvp]

I agree and on a personal level find it very sad indeed. However, some people are very much 'loners' and choose to live a solitary life.

[hc4361]

Some people really do not want to interact with others, I hope this was so for those who are found dead after many months.

[Buenchico]

I don't see it as 'awful' (other than being rather smelly, of course!).

I live alone and I most definitely want to die alone. (The thought of being 'surrounded by friends and family' absolutely horrifies me). If I die at home it will probably be many months, or even years, before anyone finds my body. That doesn't worry me at all (apart, of course, from my cats having nobody to look after them).

I deliberately limit my social contacts to 'familiar acquaintances' (such as the guys I'll be joining in the pub later on), rather than 'close friends'; they're too much ruddy trouble!

[gness]

Oh for heaven' sake, Chris......don't lie there for months or years.....imagine how many.....Anyone seen, Buenchico?......Chris hasn't posted for a while....Hope he's okay...... threads we will have to endure......

Then we'll have to find out where you live and the nearest aber to you will have to go and break down your door.....☺

[askyourgran]

It would be sensible to have regular telephone contact with someone who lives alone in case they are taken ill or indeed dying. Having someone ring at a pre-arranged time every day just to say hello is helpful for lonely people.

[Svejk]

Wouldn't worry about the cats. You'll still feed them in death.

[Prudie]

At the very least think of the poor people who eventually find you. It must have been horrific to find a skeleton behind a chair.

[rsvp]

Buenchicho you will be missed in a matter of hours - cue to sound of front door being battered down x