Ghastly society we live in....

[Sam Slater]

A sad demise, to die all alone and no one notice. All cultures and communities have their good and bad points, Reggie. A lot of people don't want to come across as 'nosey' or interfering these days, or are too caught up in their own little world to notice things.

The article didn't say if she had any daughters/sons???

[JonnyHungwell]

Not surprising in the least. I don't think people really care for anybody putside their immediate family circle and close friends - and even then some don't care.

[max_tranmere]

If someone has no friends or relatives, and bearing in mind that if bills remain unpaid then all they do is send some reminders, then baliffs are sent and if they can't get in they just put very threatening notes under the front door (and after doing that a few times the baliffs give up too) then it is possible for someone to lay dead in a place for more than 5 years. They could lay there forever. I heard of someone in east London (this was on the London evening news a couple of years ago) who had been lying dead for eight years in his flat. No exaggeration - that is exactly the number of years they said on the news report. I don't know who it was that broke into the flat after those 8 years (or why) but they could hardly open the front door for all the post behind it, and then upon entering the lounge they found a skeleton, wearing clothes, sitting on the sofa.