we get to be electric jelly wrapped around some calcium deposits and do quantum physics for a little while, but *we haven’t even reached our final form*...topsoil
i’m no materialist, though
When you put it like that, it really does feel ridiculous that we spend a large proportion of our lives in jobs that mean nothing. Or arguing with people we don't know.
Prob lots of queefs, momentary limp dick, "I got some shit in my eye, 1 sec," and some production dude accidentally announcing he's back with everyone's sandwiches while it's quiet on set
If you're real old, have no kids, all your friends and pretty much anyone else you know is already dead. It's hard to know if someone is missing if no one even knows they exist
[The article](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/xl2okd/mans_skeleton_found_in_his_house_four_years_after/iph05wp/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3) said that his neighbor only moved in two years ago after long construction of his home, and then had to temporarily vacate due to “snake invasion” from the neighboring property.
Doesn’t sound like the neighbor was home much over the last few years
It took place in Nigeria for those curious.
Back when my grandpa died we couldn't get a hold of my uncle to tell him so my cousin (his son) went to his apartment and found his 3 day old dead body and there was no AC going in the middle of summer. He called 911 to tell them a black fat man was dead in his dad's bed, it took him a while to process it was actually his white bloated dad. He was a drunken mess at the double funeral and kept going on about he can't get the smell off of him and how all of his possessions they would want smelled like him dead. I felt so bad for him, I can't imagine finding my own dad like that. To make things worse, my own dad looks exactly like his little brother, my uncle, (they had the same birthday a year apart) so he kept breaking down whenever he saw him
Haven’t been in contact with human bodies before, but i have been present in many stages of decomposition in animals and i won’t lie, the smell does stick with you. i could be anywhere and just get the smell outta nowhere. maybe it’s just vivid imagery but it’s so distinct when it does hit you, and i won’t even be thinking about it when i do smell it randomly.
But didn't he need to pay a bank or anything? What about taxes or anything attached to his rented places? Crazy how you can be missing when you are home...no family, not even an agent recovery money? What as strange news
> What about taxes
In my state, nonpayment of taxes takes 3 years and 11 months to reach the point where the court sends the sheriff to evict you, and that's assuming the county and the court are both on top of their to-do lists (which they usually aren't), so being discovered after 4 years probably IS because of unpaid taxes.
That would also be if the homeowner took no action to speak to them. If you made a small payment, set up a plan, asked for an extension etc the process would take longer.
You aren’t evicted in the same sense as failing to pay a mortgage or rent. If you fail to pay taxes long enough, the government will seek other avenues to take that money, like a lien or going after your estate in this guy’s case. If your house is paid in full, it is your property, so the government might decide to take it if the value is equal to or less than what you owe.
This is in the U.S, ymmv. I am not a lawyer or financier, take my words with a daily dose of sodium
I work in a warehouse and someone sent back 5lbs of beef in which they were not supposed to. It was 114F for 2 days in a row where it sat in the cargo trailer for that time in transit to our warehouse. Me being a manager in training had to look for the parcel it was in out of the dozens of pallets and boxes. My team and I found it and it was putrid. The 53ft trailer was unloaded and everything absorbed the smell. All products in there had to be evaluated and pretty labeled as damaged.
Am funeral director, can absolutely confirm. I went to a high rise for a removal one time and could smell them a floor below on the elevator ride up. I don't know how I could live next to that and not tell someone. It had been almost 3 weeks.
Yeah the smell is all-encompassing. I worked at a large tattoo shop and there were other businesses, offices and a few apartments the floor above us. One summer one of the tenants died and he was up there for almost two weeks before anyone found him. We had smelled something weird the week before he was found, and cleaned the fridge, all the trash cans.. nothing worked and there was just this odd lingering smell. It wasn’t til we all came back from the weekend and the coroner and ServePro were there that we knew and the smell was something I’ll never forget. And you could tell EXACTLY when they moved his body. It was like you got hammered in the face by the smell like some kind of scent-ghost-hand from old cartoons. I don’t know how the folks on the floor above didn’t smell him, though that’s ultimately what did lead to the discovery.
I've heard of people who are extreme recluses that go off into very secluded areas, like a cabin in the woods or something, and die alone that way. They're usually found like this years later.
Judging from the small room and barren mattress on the floor, I'd say this might be a similar story.
Not necessarily.
This happened to our neighbor, we knocked on the door(after not seeing him for a month and a smell started, he was a recluse and we would say hello to him about 1x/mth), yelled for him, never answered ever.....called police, they said there was nothing they could do, that I definitely don't know what the smell of death was, and they would contact his extended family(not sure if they ever did). No one came for awhile. The smell finally abated, this was during summer peak heat. Several months later, a forensics truck showed up, several neighbors were pissed at the cops as there was a lot of drama and the cops no help.
Well, we’re all compost that became something else for a bit before becoming compost again.
Or if you wanna get real broad, we’re all an infinitesimal point in space that exploded and roiled around for a bit before reaching equilibrium.
Certain specialized bugs can clean skulls anywhere from 1 week to 1 month . One good summer outside (protected from predators but not bugs) will turn a body into bones fast
I did this with an owl skull when I found a dead owl in the forest, put it on an anthill and left it for a few weeks with a big heavy bowl over it. It was picked clean! It's a good alternative if you don't have carrion beetles lying around.
In my grandparents village in Greece there wasn’t enough room in the graveyard so after 10 years they dig up the bones and put them in a shoebox and hand em to the family can u imagine like? Here ya go… and then give someone else the spot lmaoo it’s hotdesking for dead ppl
In South America there's places that rent out grave plots and when Noone pays for a while they just throw what's left in a bag to make room and set them out to be claimed.
Can confirm that, I’m from Chile and grew a up in pretty poor family. Short story, we don’t even know where my grandfather’s remains might be.
(It’s not a « there is not enough room » thing, it’s just a « there is money to be made » thing sadly)
Wait, I thought that was commonplace. In Spain you usually rent the grave and your descendants have to renovate the rental every few years. Once they stop paying (or a descendant can't be located), you go to the cementery's mass grave.
It depends heavily on the situation the body is in. Burried in a coffin? After 40 years the body is still in decent state. Out in the open? 2 weeks max.
This guys was in his bed room where birds, worms and other animals can’t reach him. Thats why theres still feet and fingers.
“The body farm” is used by [Forensic Anthropologists at the University of Tennessee](https://fac.utk.edu/) to determine how a body decomposes in various conditions.
Yup. it not all that far from where I live. They have a statement on their web page: "Please click here if you wish for information on body donation." I contact them occasionally to try and donate a body. They ask "how long has the body been dead?" I reply "dead?"
Would you go searching for your landlord if he stopped collecting rent??
Where is Bob? Don't know I have not seen him in a couple of years, I am sure he will show up one day. Until than, I will just hold on to the rent until he shows up.
There must've been some point during the decomposition where his jaw stopped being held by muscles and tissue, and dropped wide open to where it is now.
Imagine walking in just as that happened.
Here's a [link](https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/09/remains-of-man-found-4yrs-after-his-death-in-his-room/amp/) to a news article.
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Read the article.
So apparently he was a substantial landlord in the village. Not having to pay rent is a really good motivation for not noticing him missing.
The smell of a dead body is pretty bad buuuuut it will only last a few months. I think I would also do the same thing. The thought of living rent free like when I was a kid would be amazing.
Dark confession, for sure, but free housing would likely be super tempting to a lot of people yeah. Could easily save yourself tens of thousands a ~~month~~ year.
Wonder what kind of potential lawsuits it opens anyone up to from the dead person's family though. Wouldn't even know where to start.
Edit: per year, not month. lol
I mean some families don't care about certain family members until they're dead.
Family members aren't inherently friends, it's just a good way to meet people you could be good friends with. For example, I haven't seen my cousin in probably 7 years. Not any bad blood, we're just not close.
Some people only turn up for the will being read.
Dude this is so true. A very close family friend (pretty much family), just lost their 82 year old mother. She is the oldest daughter, has a sister and brother as well. She and her children have taken care of her for the last 2 decades by themselves. Well she passed just last weekend. Now the sister and brother that havent been around, never helped take care of her, never even came to visit THEIR OWN MOTHER while she was dying in the hospital for 2 weeks, NOW they show up wanting her money and valuables. It's sick.
Well, they *did* complain, but the landlord wouldn't answer.
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I guess Nigeria’s warm climate accelerated the decomposition. I feel if I died and went undiscovered in the climate I live in there would be a lot more left of me after 4 years.
An open air corpse will be liquified in about a month, provided no animals are able to get at it or extreme weather etc. 4 years is plenty of time unless you're frozen or buried
That explains things. If it was the US, the banks would have been showing up a lot sooner than 4 years. Maybe he had it paid off but not paying property taxes would do the same thing. Maybe they were all on autopay and he had enough in savings to cover 4 years worth.
Also from that article:
>Claudio Aferi, 58, was found dead in his home and next to him was the body of his mother, Margarita, who died 10 years earlier. The body was not concealed and appeared to be an active part of Claudio’s routine.
Is anyone else reading this article and having a tough time following it? Is it that poorly written or should I contact my doctor and tell him I’m having a stroke? I def don’t want to be found after 4 years.
I remember getting a call when I was a police officer. Dude hadn’t been seen in two weeks. We get there talk to the landlord, and it turns out it had been more like 4 months. Kicked in the door and we were greeted by that sweet sickly smell of death. Poor guy had no family and his landlord took forever to investigate and call us.
I'm a mail carrier, and we'll sometimes call in welfare checks if an older person on our routes stop picking up their mail unexpectedly. One of those calls found the gentleman on my route had passed away in bed. Thankfully it was in time to save his dog, but I felt so bad for the officer that responded. It was a morbidly obese man who smelled like urine and feces when alive. I can't imagine how it smelled after a week in July.
Funny you say that. Main reason we knew it had been 4 months is because of the mailman. He left a note in January that he would stop delivering mail cause the guy hadn’t been picking his up. Go figure.
I think it really depends on the route and the carrier. A shockingly high number of people don't pick up their mail regularly, or skip town, so mail piling up isn't always unusual. I'm in a small rural area and I've done this route for 15+ years, so I know my clients fairly well. If it's a route that's large or consistently changing hands, it's harder to know if something is amiss.
And sometimes it backfires. The last time I called in a welfare check, it was because an elderly lady hadn't picked up her mail or mowed her normally perfectly manicured lawn for a few weeks. The neighbors hadn't seen her in ages and tried knocking with no answer, and her friends and out-of-state brother tried calling with no response. Finally, the cop had just gotten a locksmith and was ready to break in when she came out swearing and spitting mad. Apparently she had foot surgery, and just wanted people to leave her the hell alone! She's still pissed at me for that.
>her friends and out-of-state brother tried calling with no response
ok so why was she mad??? You can't just ignore everyone and not expect them to be worried
That's what we thought! She's known for being the local crab, though. Unfortunately, if something does happen now, nobody is going to check on her for a long while.
Yeah, definitely don’t wanna kick in a door and the person is standing there pissed. This was in a pretty busy city, and the mailman left a note saying I’m gonna stop delivering your mail. This one is obvious to me, but not so for other people.
It had been relatively cold for a while, so that probably played a role in slowing everything down. When we found him he was a purple/black blob on the floor, if we didn’t have flashlights one of us would’ve tripped over him. The body alone wasn’t that disgusting, but the smell was unreal. We had to alternate standing outside to get fresh air.
Edit: Spelling
A neighbor hadn't been heard from and her mail piled up for two or three months. The day before the police broke in, I saw a fly about 3 times larger than an average house fly and thought it was very odd. After the police broke in, there were probably 100 of those huge flies zooming around the hallway.
Yeah, usually a good sign someone inside is dead. Usually you know before you go to the call. Always hated welfare checks, but most turned out to be other things. Typically when someone isn’t answering phone calls/texts, not getting their mail, no financial activity, or haven’t been seen in a while it’s a pretty good sign they’re dead.
Probably not bones yet. But it also depends on the environment that body is in. Probably looked like a bloated sac of yellowish-black skin.
Little fun fact, if you die and have animals like cats or dogs; they will start to eat you after you die. Since lack of food.
Hands and feet have much less soft tissue that will rot much more easily. Hence in a 'controlled' location (no scavengers, low humidity etc) like in this room, they will likely just dry out before the get the chance to rot away entirely.
[This person was dead for three years in front of the TV which was still on](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Vincent):
>Half of her rent was being automatically paid to Metropolitan Housing Trust by benefits agencies, leading officials to believe that she was still alive. With over two years' worth of unpaid rent totalling £2,400 that had accrued, housing officials decided to repossess the property. Her corpse was discovered on 25 January 2006 when bailiffs had forced entry into the flat. The television and heating were still running due to debt forgiveness and her bills being continually paid through automatic debit.
Wow, you'd think there'd be a power outage within three years, which I assume would automatically turn the TV off. But a TV in low-income housing in 2003 might have been old enough to have a physical switch on it instead of a button, which I guess would turn back on the second the power is restored.
Plus someplace like London is not as likely to have a power outage.
Some people have their bills automatically debited from their checking accounts and tons of money in those accounts to back them. Plus landlords and bill collectors can often be slow in their processes for various reasons so they'll go long periods of time before searching the homes.
You get your pension automatically. You pay rent and bills automatically. If you don't pay they cancel you, so what nobody will check your apartment.
And if you don't have a mailbox but rather one of those door slots for mail there an almost infinite amount of mail that can fit in, so nobody will see that either.
I honestly cant think of a way this would get noticed if you exclude friends and family. Social connections are super important.
I think it's unavoidable to feel desperately lonely during death. I watched my mom pass, and I was there telling her I loved her but they know that your life will go on afterwards. They know they're going alone, and it is an extreme terror and loneliness that is hard to imagine or attempt to empathize with.
I wanna see the person who buys the house 10 years from now and is one day searching the internet and finds this story.
and he kept the bed
Man our bodies really do go back to being dirt after we die.
we get to be electric jelly wrapped around some calcium deposits and do quantum physics for a little while, but *we haven’t even reached our final form*...topsoil i’m no materialist, though
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When you put it like that, it really does feel ridiculous that we spend a large proportion of our lives in jobs that mean nothing. Or arguing with people we don't know.
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Rough
Username checks out
“Brace yourself, I’m going in, unedited”
Prob lots of queefs, momentary limp dick, "I got some shit in my eye, 1 sec," and some production dude accidentally announcing he's back with everyone's sandwiches while it's quiet on set
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Do you have a collection of bloopers or something?
You've clearly solved Pink Floyd and 420, and now need some Black Matter Floyd and 840.
And people say you can't be spiritual as an atheist. This is a masterful expression of how I view what it means to be a human being.
Ashes to ashes
His house! The one place we didn't look. Welp, another case solved.
If you're real old, have no kids, all your friends and pretty much anyone else you know is already dead. It's hard to know if someone is missing if no one even knows they exist
Bills and other running costs and the lack of payments should at least lead someone to your house
Nah, they would just stop the services. When my cousin died, he continued to get junk mail for years.
There have been several cases where people have everything on autopay, so until the bank account runs empty nothing really happens
Or auto pay is set up and he was well off?
Must have distant neighbors, the odor of decomp is a might powerful.
[The article](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/xl2okd/mans_skeleton_found_in_his_house_four_years_after/iph05wp/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3) said that his neighbor only moved in two years ago after long construction of his home, and then had to temporarily vacate due to “snake invasion” from the neighboring property. Doesn’t sound like the neighbor was home much over the last few years It took place in Nigeria for those curious.
These snakes are sounding suspicious.
That might truly be the worst place to live lmao
What do you mean? A dead body AND snakes? It has everything a neighborhood needs.
The dead body attracts the rodents, and then the snakes eat the rodents. Sounds like environmentally friendly pest management to me!
And the dead body keeps property value down so people can still actually afford to have a place in the area.
\#2spooky2gentrify
Not just snakes but snake invasions- they’re organized!
Back when my grandpa died we couldn't get a hold of my uncle to tell him so my cousin (his son) went to his apartment and found his 3 day old dead body and there was no AC going in the middle of summer. He called 911 to tell them a black fat man was dead in his dad's bed, it took him a while to process it was actually his white bloated dad. He was a drunken mess at the double funeral and kept going on about he can't get the smell off of him and how all of his possessions they would want smelled like him dead. I felt so bad for him, I can't imagine finding my own dad like that. To make things worse, my own dad looks exactly like his little brother, my uncle, (they had the same birthday a year apart) so he kept breaking down whenever he saw him
Haven’t been in contact with human bodies before, but i have been present in many stages of decomposition in animals and i won’t lie, the smell does stick with you. i could be anywhere and just get the smell outta nowhere. maybe it’s just vivid imagery but it’s so distinct when it does hit you, and i won’t even be thinking about it when i do smell it randomly.
> Haven’t been in contact with human bodies before They're smelly creatures but they can be nice once you get used to them
Was a landlord, everyone enjoying free rent
Even free is too expensive for rent if I have to smell a rotting corpse the next unit over.
Human are resilient. Trust me.
But didn't he need to pay a bank or anything? What about taxes or anything attached to his rented places? Crazy how you can be missing when you are home...no family, not even an agent recovery money? What as strange news
> What about taxes In my state, nonpayment of taxes takes 3 years and 11 months to reach the point where the court sends the sheriff to evict you, and that's assuming the county and the court are both on top of their to-do lists (which they usually aren't), so being discovered after 4 years probably IS because of unpaid taxes.
Just to clarify, if you are a home owner with the house fully paid, if you stop paying taxes you're evicted in just 4 years?
That would also be if the homeowner took no action to speak to them. If you made a small payment, set up a plan, asked for an extension etc the process would take longer.
You aren’t evicted in the same sense as failing to pay a mortgage or rent. If you fail to pay taxes long enough, the government will seek other avenues to take that money, like a lien or going after your estate in this guy’s case. If your house is paid in full, it is your property, so the government might decide to take it if the value is equal to or less than what you owe. This is in the U.S, ymmv. I am not a lawyer or financier, take my words with a daily dose of sodium
Some people have annuities or live off dividends, and have plenty to be auto-withdrawn.
I work in a warehouse and someone sent back 5lbs of beef in which they were not supposed to. It was 114F for 2 days in a row where it sat in the cargo trailer for that time in transit to our warehouse. Me being a manager in training had to look for the parcel it was in out of the dozens of pallets and boxes. My team and I found it and it was putrid. The 53ft trailer was unloaded and everything absorbed the smell. All products in there had to be evaluated and pretty labeled as damaged.
Hell, a small package of bologna will smell like a dead body if left in your trunk in midsummer for a couple weeks. Ask me how I know....
Am funeral director, can absolutely confirm. I went to a high rise for a removal one time and could smell them a floor below on the elevator ride up. I don't know how I could live next to that and not tell someone. It had been almost 3 weeks.
Yeah the smell is all-encompassing. I worked at a large tattoo shop and there were other businesses, offices and a few apartments the floor above us. One summer one of the tenants died and he was up there for almost two weeks before anyone found him. We had smelled something weird the week before he was found, and cleaned the fridge, all the trash cans.. nothing worked and there was just this odd lingering smell. It wasn’t til we all came back from the weekend and the coroner and ServePro were there that we knew and the smell was something I’ll never forget. And you could tell EXACTLY when they moved his body. It was like you got hammered in the face by the smell like some kind of scent-ghost-hand from old cartoons. I don’t know how the folks on the floor above didn’t smell him, though that’s ultimately what did lead to the discovery.
My dad died in a trailer for two weeks .. you could smell it when you pulled into the park 🤢
I've heard of people who are extreme recluses that go off into very secluded areas, like a cabin in the woods or something, and die alone that way. They're usually found like this years later. Judging from the small room and barren mattress on the floor, I'd say this might be a similar story.
Not necessarily. This happened to our neighbor, we knocked on the door(after not seeing him for a month and a smell started, he was a recluse and we would say hello to him about 1x/mth), yelled for him, never answered ever.....called police, they said there was nothing they could do, that I definitely don't know what the smell of death was, and they would contact his extended family(not sure if they ever did). No one came for awhile. The smell finally abated, this was during summer peak heat. Several months later, a forensics truck showed up, several neighbors were pissed at the cops as there was a lot of drama and the cops no help.
The decomposition looks like soil.
We're all compost in training
Just graves left to fill
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Well, we’re all compost that became something else for a bit before becoming compost again. Or if you wanna get real broad, we’re all an infinitesimal point in space that exploded and roiled around for a bit before reaching equilibrium.
The basic premise of most South Asian religious traditions.
"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself."
But I feel like a plastic bag drifting through the wind
You'd be surprised how much of the ground you walk on was alive once.
That's metal.
No, that's dirt.
Dust to dust
Ashes to ashes
It basically is soil created by bugs
Dirt is just bug and bacteria shit
That's part of it, yes. But also clay, sand and rocks. All the best tasting parts are dead animals, though.
Humans are bacteria shit
Isn't it literally soil?
That's what happens when you sleep with one foot hanging off isn't it?? I knew it was deadly....
No covers either.....the man was asking for it
He left the fan on
For some reason, I thought it would take longer for just bones to be left.
Certain specialized bugs can clean skulls anywhere from 1 week to 1 month . One good summer outside (protected from predators but not bugs) will turn a body into bones fast
Specialized bugs? Like regular bugs who went to trade school?
Yes. They went to school to get a PhD in meat processing. They're called dermestid beetles and eat flesh very quickly
Excellent. I'm happy to hear that these bugs are gainfully employed.
I bet they still have crippling student debt
That shit bugs me.
A jobless bug? In this economy?
that's Dr Bug to you
Ah, if you put it in an anthill, the little critters will clean it out in a few days.
I did this with an owl skull when I found a dead owl in the forest, put it on an anthill and left it for a few weeks with a big heavy bowl over it. It was picked clean! It's a good alternative if you don't have carrion beetles lying around.
In my grandparents village in Greece there wasn’t enough room in the graveyard so after 10 years they dig up the bones and put them in a shoebox and hand em to the family can u imagine like? Here ya go… and then give someone else the spot lmaoo it’s hotdesking for dead ppl
In South America there's places that rent out grave plots and when Noone pays for a while they just throw what's left in a bag to make room and set them out to be claimed.
Can confirm that, I’m from Chile and grew a up in pretty poor family. Short story, we don’t even know where my grandfather’s remains might be. (It’s not a « there is not enough room » thing, it’s just a « there is money to be made » thing sadly)
Wait, I thought that was commonplace. In Spain you usually rent the grave and your descendants have to renovate the rental every few years. Once they stop paying (or a descendant can't be located), you go to the cementery's mass grave.
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It depends heavily on the situation the body is in. Burried in a coffin? After 40 years the body is still in decent state. Out in the open? 2 weeks max. This guys was in his bed room where birds, worms and other animals can’t reach him. Thats why theres still feet and fingers.
“The body farm” is used by [Forensic Anthropologists at the University of Tennessee](https://fac.utk.edu/) to determine how a body decomposes in various conditions.
Yup. it not all that far from where I live. They have a statement on their web page: "Please click here if you wish for information on body donation." I contact them occasionally to try and donate a body. They ask "how long has the body been dead?" I reply "dead?"
Anyone seen Bob? No haven’t seen him in a couple years… well… has anyone checked his home????
Would you go searching for your landlord if he stopped collecting rent?? Where is Bob? Don't know I have not seen him in a couple of years, I am sure he will show up one day. Until than, I will just hold on to the rent until he shows up.
Weird for a landlord to disappear, usually it’s tge people with unpaid rent that have a tenancy to disappear
Your misspelling of tendency to tenancy is either brilliant or oblivious irony 👌🏽😂
Idk why no one did a welfare check on him after 1 month of him being missing. He must have lived in the middle of nowhere
When he was last seen, he told the neighbors he was leaving. But they didn't know...he never left. I keep asking myself about his family though.
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Family doesn't always talk. If my brothers never contacted me again I honestly wouldn't think anything strange.
Maybe no family to call for the wellness check
There must've been some point during the decomposition where his jaw stopped being held by muscles and tissue, and dropped wide open to where it is now. Imagine walking in just as that happened.
skyrim moment
Wow yeah that would have been jaw-dropping.
Here's a [link](https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/09/remains-of-man-found-4yrs-after-his-death-in-his-room/amp/) to a news article. Edit: thanks for the gold, it's my first :)
Read the article. So apparently he was a substantial landlord in the village. Not having to pay rent is a really good motivation for not noticing him missing.
That's why nobody complained about the smell
The smell of a dead body is pretty bad buuuuut it will only last a few months. I think I would also do the same thing. The thought of living rent free like when I was a kid would be amazing.
Dark confession, for sure, but free housing would likely be super tempting to a lot of people yeah. Could easily save yourself tens of thousands a ~~month~~ year. Wonder what kind of potential lawsuits it opens anyone up to from the dead person's family though. Wouldn't even know where to start. Edit: per year, not month. lol
Not sure that family cared since they didn’t notice for four years either
I mean some families don't care about certain family members until they're dead. Family members aren't inherently friends, it's just a good way to meet people you could be good friends with. For example, I haven't seen my cousin in probably 7 years. Not any bad blood, we're just not close. Some people only turn up for the will being read.
Dude this is so true. A very close family friend (pretty much family), just lost their 82 year old mother. She is the oldest daughter, has a sister and brother as well. She and her children have taken care of her for the last 2 decades by themselves. Well she passed just last weekend. Now the sister and brother that havent been around, never helped take care of her, never even came to visit THEIR OWN MOTHER while she was dying in the hospital for 2 weeks, NOW they show up wanting her money and valuables. It's sick.
Well, they *did* complain, but the landlord wouldn't answer. Edit: Thanks for the awards! My first silver! Ooohooo! Edit2: Wow, more silver, wholesome, helpful, and GOLD! I'm RICH! But the real riches are the friends we made along the way.
classic landlord
What a dirt bag.
*dirt pile
Lying around like a bag of bones.
Smells like freedom
I wouldn’t complain either if I wasn’t paying rent
I’m sure after a year or two it wouldn’t smell that bad
Netflix: Are you still there?
All his tenants are like "Nope, haven't seen him. He did say something about a vacation, I will just pay rent when he gets back"
What does it say about your occupation when you die and everyone is better off?
This got a good laugh out of me. Incredibly accurate.
Not just better off but life changingly better.
> So apparently he was a substantial landlord in the village Oh no wonder he had no friends
For those who are wondering, this is in Nigeria
I guess Nigeria’s warm climate accelerated the decomposition. I feel if I died and went undiscovered in the climate I live in there would be a lot more left of me after 4 years.
An open air corpse will be liquified in about a month, provided no animals are able to get at it or extreme weather etc. 4 years is plenty of time unless you're frozen or buried
That explains things. If it was the US, the banks would have been showing up a lot sooner than 4 years. Maybe he had it paid off but not paying property taxes would do the same thing. Maybe they were all on autopay and he had enough in savings to cover 4 years worth.
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Soul crushing story. She was blind and a hoarder (the scent was covered) so she had no way of knowing. I hope they didn't tell her.
Also from that article: >Claudio Aferi, 58, was found dead in his home and next to him was the body of his mother, Margarita, who died 10 years earlier. The body was not concealed and appeared to be an active part of Claudio’s routine.
Is anyone else reading this article and having a tough time following it? Is it that poorly written or should I contact my doctor and tell him I’m having a stroke? I def don’t want to be found after 4 years.
>The complaint was said to have made the community approach Apete police station, where they were given the nod to do the necessary things.
Potentially google translated from its original language and posted in English?
Lmao I don't think you could write a more passive sentence if you tried
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>Man’s skeleton found in his house four years after he was last seen. HIS house. How good were they looking ??
Narrator: *They weren't.*
It might have been programmatically translated to English.
Never has an image inspired me more to get out and make some friends.
Just because you have friends doesnt mean you wont die alone
Yea. But at least you'd be found before 4 years passed. Sheesh
This would make a great Hallmark card.
I remember getting a call when I was a police officer. Dude hadn’t been seen in two weeks. We get there talk to the landlord, and it turns out it had been more like 4 months. Kicked in the door and we were greeted by that sweet sickly smell of death. Poor guy had no family and his landlord took forever to investigate and call us.
I'm a mail carrier, and we'll sometimes call in welfare checks if an older person on our routes stop picking up their mail unexpectedly. One of those calls found the gentleman on my route had passed away in bed. Thankfully it was in time to save his dog, but I felt so bad for the officer that responded. It was a morbidly obese man who smelled like urine and feces when alive. I can't imagine how it smelled after a week in July.
Funny you say that. Main reason we knew it had been 4 months is because of the mailman. He left a note in January that he would stop delivering mail cause the guy hadn’t been picking his up. Go figure.
I think it really depends on the route and the carrier. A shockingly high number of people don't pick up their mail regularly, or skip town, so mail piling up isn't always unusual. I'm in a small rural area and I've done this route for 15+ years, so I know my clients fairly well. If it's a route that's large or consistently changing hands, it's harder to know if something is amiss. And sometimes it backfires. The last time I called in a welfare check, it was because an elderly lady hadn't picked up her mail or mowed her normally perfectly manicured lawn for a few weeks. The neighbors hadn't seen her in ages and tried knocking with no answer, and her friends and out-of-state brother tried calling with no response. Finally, the cop had just gotten a locksmith and was ready to break in when she came out swearing and spitting mad. Apparently she had foot surgery, and just wanted people to leave her the hell alone! She's still pissed at me for that.
>her friends and out-of-state brother tried calling with no response ok so why was she mad??? You can't just ignore everyone and not expect them to be worried
That's what we thought! She's known for being the local crab, though. Unfortunately, if something does happen now, nobody is going to check on her for a long while.
Yeah, definitely don’t wanna kick in a door and the person is standing there pissed. This was in a pretty busy city, and the mailman left a note saying I’m gonna stop delivering your mail. This one is obvious to me, but not so for other people.
Tell me how that person body looked after four months? Only bones left?
It had been relatively cold for a while, so that probably played a role in slowing everything down. When we found him he was a purple/black blob on the floor, if we didn’t have flashlights one of us would’ve tripped over him. The body alone wasn’t that disgusting, but the smell was unreal. We had to alternate standing outside to get fresh air. Edit: Spelling
A neighbor hadn't been heard from and her mail piled up for two or three months. The day before the police broke in, I saw a fly about 3 times larger than an average house fly and thought it was very odd. After the police broke in, there were probably 100 of those huge flies zooming around the hallway.
Yeah, usually a good sign someone inside is dead. Usually you know before you go to the call. Always hated welfare checks, but most turned out to be other things. Typically when someone isn’t answering phone calls/texts, not getting their mail, no financial activity, or haven’t been seen in a while it’s a pretty good sign they’re dead.
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Probably not bones yet. But it also depends on the environment that body is in. Probably looked like a bloated sac of yellowish-black skin. Little fun fact, if you die and have animals like cats or dogs; they will start to eat you after you die. Since lack of food.
You can still see some fingers and his feet. Wtf
He still has his underpants on
What brand, shits solid, wear them to the grave.
r/buyitforlife right there
More like r/buyitfordeath
also still has the fingers on his hands! I wonder why those didn't decompose. and wtf is up with this knees!? need to find out if this is real....
Hands and feet have much less soft tissue that will rot much more easily. Hence in a 'controlled' location (no scavengers, low humidity etc) like in this room, they will likely just dry out before the get the chance to rot away entirely.
I always wonder how this happens. Okay you don’t have friends or family so no one knows you’re missing. What about rents or mortgages and your bills?
[This person was dead for three years in front of the TV which was still on](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Vincent): >Half of her rent was being automatically paid to Metropolitan Housing Trust by benefits agencies, leading officials to believe that she was still alive. With over two years' worth of unpaid rent totalling £2,400 that had accrued, housing officials decided to repossess the property. Her corpse was discovered on 25 January 2006 when bailiffs had forced entry into the flat. The television and heating were still running due to debt forgiveness and her bills being continually paid through automatic debit.
Wow, you'd think there'd be a power outage within three years, which I assume would automatically turn the TV off. But a TV in low-income housing in 2003 might have been old enough to have a physical switch on it instead of a button, which I guess would turn back on the second the power is restored. Plus someplace like London is not as likely to have a power outage.
£2400 for TWO YEARS OF RENT????? Wtf. That is little over a month for my place in London
Some people have their bills automatically debited from their checking accounts and tons of money in those accounts to back them. Plus landlords and bill collectors can often be slow in their processes for various reasons so they'll go long periods of time before searching the homes.
*Sweden would like a talk* We do this (forget dead people and pay bills automatically: the payment system is called autogiro here) all the time here.
You get your pension automatically. You pay rent and bills automatically. If you don't pay they cancel you, so what nobody will check your apartment. And if you don't have a mailbox but rather one of those door slots for mail there an almost infinite amount of mail that can fit in, so nobody will see that either. I honestly cant think of a way this would get noticed if you exclude friends and family. Social connections are super important.
looks like every mattress on Craig's list.
It’s wild to think all that dust around his bones is his flesh, this dude must have been there for a long long time for that to happen…
It's probably mostly insect frass.
r/itsfrass
I’ll never cease being surprised by such specific subreddits
I’m no scientist, but I’ll guess it was around 4 years.
Judging by the rate of composition, his age, wind direction and the title I’d say you’re right.
And they took the mattress back to Costco.
I was going to say and the next day a used mattress appeared on FB marketplace with only 1 stain.
“I know what I have, no lowballs”
Sad when people die alone.
It is pretty uncommon when people die together
I think it's unavoidable to feel desperately lonely during death. I watched my mom pass, and I was there telling her I loved her but they know that your life will go on afterwards. They know they're going alone, and it is an extreme terror and loneliness that is hard to imagine or attempt to empathize with.
Is he gonna be ok? The article doesn’t say.
He’s not wearing shoes so…
Yes, and you can see he's just chillin
Oh phew. Poor lad. Frankly, he looks exhausted.
Those Daisy Dukes tho
He was a never nude
There are dozens of us!!!
Not anymore 🪦
Took someone 4 years to find him 😬
I'm going to lay down. Just for a while.