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- JonTheGoose, on 07/04/2009, -4/+340If I died and stopped commenting on Digg you guys would notice and call someone, right?
.....right? - netneutrality, on 07/03/2009, -3/+338I've been lying in my flat for years without anyone noticing too.
- DirtyVicar, on 07/03/2009, -0/+296It's kind of sad because in her 30s and 40s she probably had a job, friends, and all kinds of events going on in her life. Fast forward many decades, things change, and she becomes forgotten. This could happen to any of us when we're older depending on how the cards fall.
On another note, it must be nice to go for years with all your housing costs and bills paid up. I can't even imagine that. - BREZZZ, on 07/04/2009, -0/+187They will eat you.
- hyparxis, on 07/03/2009, -6/+188that's why you need cats.
- fxu1989, on 07/04/2009, -2/+155You mean your mom's basement?
- killerpotato, on 07/04/2009, -3/+118You are depressing as balls
- geogeer, on 07/03/2009, -5/+92It is very sad how lonely some people must live their lives.
- Verytastycheese, on 07/04/2009, -0/+84Not so hard when you've got a pension and no food/living expenses.
- N1NTENDOnerd, on 07/04/2009, -3/+82FTA: "Giovanni Cilia, who owns the Fioritalia florist below Miss Purves's traditional tenement flat, said he was shocked at how long it took to find her. He said: 'How did no one notice the smell, or wonder where she was?
'I heard there was a big pile of letters and bills behind the door. I used to see her walk past the shop maybe four times a week. She would often go across the street and pick up litter to clean the place up.'"
If he sees her four times a week and suddenly stops seeing her, how come he never asked any questions or raised any awareness. Yet, he's shocked? I love how no one around her noticed that she was missing but once it hits the news, suddenly everyone is so concerned and surprised. - spookyttws, on 07/04/2009, -0/+78I'd be there for you, if it weren't for this horrible "fractured society" we live in. It's clearly to blame.
- ryanonfire, on 07/04/2009, -1/+77and no one will have to clean up the mess :)
- EddiePotato, on 07/04/2009, -2/+77Some people prefer to be alone. She may have died perfectly happy.
- Sisko41, on 07/04/2009, -1/+66I'm in my mom's basement... :(
- beabis, on 07/04/2009, -3/+65She's been really saving on food lately.
- beabis, on 07/04/2009, -0/+59Cats will only start the job. I keep my apartment infested with dermestid beetles so when they find me the bones will be picked clean.
- johnsmith555, on 07/04/2009, -2/+57Really? This is the reason?
- supertom, on 07/04/2009, -0/+54What's with all the ***** spam in the comments?
- beabis, on 07/04/2009, -1/+54No one cares. Set up a death switch.
http://www.deathswitch.com/ - Mujokan, on 07/04/2009, -0/+48That's really thoughtful.
- Velnich, on 07/04/2009, -0/+48The cats would turn you into a different kind of mess.
- Adelhas, on 07/04/2009, -0/+45Sad story... The first comment on this thread really says all there is to say.
Nontheless I need to get my pension with that bank. Five years without paperwork is nice. My father has to prove he's still alive every 18 months to get his money. - whiledo, on 07/04/2009, -2/+47Maybe. But some people LIKE being alone. Ever heard of hermits? Personally, I could go either way. I really enjoy the friendships and relationships that I have now and wouldn't want them to end. But if they weren't there, I think I could be perfectly happy as a hermit.
- protodon, on 07/04/2009, -0/+39I like how she was 85 when the story began and 90 by the time I got to the end. Someone should tell them dead people don't age.
- cplusplus, on 07/04/2009, -1/+36and living expenses
- The_Tate, on 07/04/2009, -0/+31The Nigerians must be getting restless...
- notoneofus, on 07/04/2009, -1/+32Balls are depressing? *That's* depressing.
- EddiePotato, on 07/04/2009, -10/+40It doesn't depend on "how the cards fall", it depends completely on how interested one is in maintaining a social life. You could die alone and forgotten at 30 if you've chosen to isolate yourself from the world, whereas you'd be noticed missing immediately at 100 if you were making an effort to keep friends in your life. She wasn't a victim of circumstance, she was just a loner -- by choice. Nothing sad about it at all, unless she was personally sad about the way she lived and couldn't muster the wherewithal to change. Whether or not that was the case, we cannot know.
- Moralogic, on 07/04/2009, -0/+29very saggy balls that have gotten tangled
- EddiePotato, on 07/04/2009, -2/+28Because you are concerned you'll end up dead in a Daily Mail sob story?
- alienufo, on 07/04/2009, -0/+24considering she was 85 when she died, its fairly likely that her immediate family members were dead.
- sirjoebob, on 07/04/2009, -3/+25Said the Diggers alone in a dark room in front of an LCD. lol
- tnoy, on 07/04/2009, -1/+23@Velnich
A cat would eat that too. - Velnich, on 07/04/2009, -0/+22Who would you prefer to stumble across your rotten corpse if not the rent jacking landlords?
- Balanced, on 07/04/2009, -0/+20I'd think it might have cleared up after 2-3 years.
- inactive, on 07/04/2009, -1/+20hahah
- netdroid9, on 07/04/2009, -2/+19OMNOMNOM
- sirjoebob, on 07/04/2009, -0/+17Or half a decade?
- TheMagician2007, on 07/04/2009, -0/+16Live together, die alone.
- LokitheComplex, on 07/04/2009, -1/+17I guess I should say this is the street next to my street.
Never met her. There was a news team doing a piece to camera and I stopped to chat to them. We discussed what it meant and they asked if it would change my behaviour. I thought no. And I refused to talk on camera. I guess I like my privacy...
I think the reasons for this sort of thing are global and not easily changed. Probably our ability to be independent now. Not only was she independent but those who could have been close were independent too.
As for the loner comments, even if she was it is a tragedy for the community for her to have lain there. - manicleek, on 07/04/2009, -1/+16There are plenty of other reason for suddenly not seeing someone anymore. Why should he have immediately assumed she had died
- shuukiru, on 07/04/2009, -0/+15old person, buried.
- snugsoho, on 07/04/2009, -0/+15This reminds me of a short story by Paulo Coelho which was included in his book 'Like The Flowing River' its unfortunately a true story and it's been a few years since I read it so I may be a little rusty on details. It was basically about a Japanese salary man who looses his job in the economic crisis in the early 80's after he has just paid up a small fortune for a brand new apartment still being constructed, after loosing his job his wife divorced him and took the kids, following the crisis the banks quit lending money to construction companies and the work on the apartment came to a halt. Having no where else to go he went to his incomplete apartment and died , the construction site was sealed as the company building it had gone bankrupt and his body wasn't discovered for almost 20 years, absolutely no one had bothered to look for him...
Coelho then makes a remark which I do remember, he thought and prayed for this man and concluded that the isolation of this man to the extend that for 20 years no one noticed that he had simply vanished without a trace was worse than hunger or thirst, worse than loosing your job and your home, being unhappy in love, defeated in despair - much worse than any of those things is feeling that no one, absolutely no one cares.
I think it would be appropriate that we all take a moment to think, to pray if you do, for Isabella Purves and to understand how important friends and family are. - jasdf, on 07/04/2009, -1/+15This could easily be me. I even have a job, but nobody would notice if I didn't show up for a week or so.
- spookyttws, on 07/04/2009, -7/+19Ah, yes it's our fractured society to blame. Not the fact that people move in and out of apartments regularly and when a person lives alone at 85, has no family, and has her payments done automatically, you actually expect random people in the building to butt into the life of a woman who was clearly quite private.
Yeah, it's today's "horrible fractured society" to blame. As if this sort of thing would be impossible 60 years ago before those crazy delinquents ruined the world as we know it. If only it was still like the 50's, you know a much more peaceful and honest time, when women knew their place was in the kitchen, and 'certain people' were sprayed with fire hoses and had dogs attack them if they wanted equal rights. Well let's just be glad those horrible homosexuals still aren't allowed to marry, think of the fractured society that would bring about! - skipvt, on 07/04/2009, -0/+12And you didn't notice! Shame on you...
- netdroid9, on 07/04/2009, -0/+12She got moved to an old folks home, or she had to go into hospital or something. He's not going to break into her house, and if noone ever visits her how would he know?
- bwjacket, on 07/03/2009, -6/+18This is why I don't pay my rent via direct draft.
- Y0tsuya, on 07/04/2009, -0/+11These days you'd be told to mind your own business.
- cloudberries, on 07/04/2009, -1/+12Oh, ***** off
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