Why it took 383 days to find a man dead in his own living room

abc ^ | May 23, 2018 | Jeremy Jojola,

[bgill]

A neighbor’s call to 911 started the investigation into the whereabouts of 68-year-old Charles Frary -- or Chuck, as his family knew him. Ten days after that 911 call, Chuck’s own children filed a missing persons report. But the effort to find the missing man dragged on for more than a year in the midst of miscommunication between city agencies and a lack of preparedness to handle what they describe as Denver's worst hoarding case on record. The search for Chuck never extended far from his home. Turns out, it didn’t need to: 383 days after that neighbor’s call for help, Chuck’s remains were discovered in his living room... We are very proud of the job our team did,” Lee said [Dir. of Public Health Inspection]

[BobL]

“As our society becomes more fragmented, and we have more people (especially the elderly) living alone, this will become more common.”

Particularly with people having less and less kids, with many people having no kids.

[vladimir998]

“Nah. People who live alone communicate by phone, email, direct interface etc.”

Not exactly. “In the United States, approximately 42.6 million adults aged over 45 reported suffering from chronic loneliness in a major 2010 study by the AARP.”

And, “ Britain has appointed a “minister for loneliness” to overcome what Prime ... as one in ten people felt lonely “always or often” and that hundreds of thousands of elderly people hadn’t spoken to a friend or relative in the past month.”

There are people going weeks without talking to anyone. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/britain-appoints-minister-loneliness-tackle-social-isolation-n838291

[dirtboy]

Yeah, when my parents go I’ll be like your sister. My mom still insists on writing checks for everything.

[Buckeye McFrog]

There was a story a few years back about a man whose skeletal remains were found in a recliner in front of a blown-out television set.

[YogicCowboy]

Going the way of Japan?