Nobody To Care

Unfortunately, there are probably a larger number of people of which we are not aware that live in a state such as this woman. No one to care, no one to look in on them. A very sad way to live and a very sad way to see a life end that probably benefited many others.

I did hear about this and it still sounds very surreal and unbelievable to me! I cannot comprehend nobody noticed anything wrong for all this time! I do try to keep in touch with people I know who live alone as much as I can although it is harder now that I cannot get around the same! xxx

I feel it's a great idea. However I feel, the number of such people is so huge, that you alone cannot visit everyone. Why rather don't you try to form a worldwide organisation to take care of such people. If your will is genuine, you will definitely succeed.

Its very sad.I know someone who has no family but he has alot of friends and domestic help.He's quite cared for.I have neighbour's who have three children.They are married and setlled in UK.This couple also plan to come back to India as they say here things are much better old age can be quite a scary thing in UK.Here you have someone or the other dropping by you will not be left alone.It must be quite sad for those who live like that.

I do not know of anyone personally but I can just see that happening to me if my husband should pass on beofre I do. I have a daughter who cares about me though so maybe she would come around and care for me. I love the elderly people and hate to see them alone or mistreated. I would take the time to visit them also. I would hate to be alone. I have done many things for the elderly over the years.

You hear about things like that, but I don't know anyone like that cause if I knew them then they would have someone to drop in on them.

That is sad. I cannot believe she was not missed in all that time. Did people just think her house was sitting empty? That is so crazy and sad.

No I am happy to say that I do not know anyone like that and if I did like you I would take time to visit them I read this story to and it upset me a bit as that is so sad

Oh how sad. Can't believe nobody knew she was deceased. I don't personally know anyone who is totally alone. If I did, I would make it a priority to stop by every few days or once a week to check on the person and to make sure this person had groceries and other personal items.

OMG!!! This certainly takes the cake for community negligence too, apart from negligence of relatives and friends. I mean if she was staying in an apartment, there were bound to be other apartments near her’s and so how could they stay thru the smell? Or are we so busy with our own pathetic existence that we don’t even care to investigate the smell of rotting flesh! Mummification is a scientific process and if not done properly, I doubt if the body would have stayed like that. Here in India with apartments cropping up like mushrooms, most people are preferring to lead a non-intrusive secluded existence where a ‘hello’ now and then is the most they go towards neighbourhood bonding. However even these people take note if the morning paper is accumulating over the week at somebody’s doorstep or if the apartment is looking too quiet for comfort…you know something fishy going on behind those doors. The police are called in and in this way, many elderly and/or lonely depressed people have somehow managed to reach the crematorium. But your incident is surely a shocker…I still cant comprehend how this went unnoticed for 60years! For myself, I don’t know anybody so lonely but I am sure I will in due course. Around me, my parents and in-laws and others in their age group in the extended family are growing old. Slowly the leaves will start falling and whoever will remain will definitely be lonely. I would sure like to visit them now and then or maybe a phone call just to see how they are pulling along.

I do not know anyone like that. I am my fathers caregiver and tend to his needs since his strokes and heart surgery. I can't see placing him in a home unless it gets to where I can't care for him. It's a shame something like that can actually happen about the mummy by the TV. Someone had to have smelt it prior to it mummyfying I think. I know I would have. I visit the home dad was in after his surgery to see some of the seniors who do not have family to visit. They treat me like their kid too. So sad yet so sweet as well. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~

this scares me a lot for this is the same reason why i'm so scared of getting old for no one will never care for me and i completely wish that if i happen not to be blessed with children i wish i would die just before i get so much old and lose the capability of doing some activities for myself..i always thought i guess i would just wish i would die at my 50's for so this will not happen to me..

living alone when your old is such a lonely sight to behold. people needs someone to care for them and tell them that they are loved. i don't want to die in such a way without having someone who'll miss me when i am gone. much even more not to notice that i am already gone. i guess it has something to do with your priorities in life when you're still young. when at the time of your youth, you've touched lives, you will never lose someone who will shed a tear for you on your graveyard.

that is a really tragic thing and it should not' happen. if all of us who know of an elderly neighbor who is all alone would drop in every once in awhile and chat with him or her maybe these things would not happen so often.