How completely ridiculous- how could you not know if he doesn't get up or eat or anything else for 10 years?
Well, he was a night person, yeah, that's it, he slept all day and while they were awake during the day the kids thought he was asleep, that's right and the fact he never ate any of the food they put out for him only meant he was probably sending out for Sezuan, that's it, yeah and....
They knew he was dead but didn't want to stop recieving the benifits of housing the oldest man. The government even paid them