Non-celebrity death trifecta in play? You watch your ass, Tito Jackson.

if you are rich

2 weeks for the rest of us

And in the mail pile, was a letter from Ed MacMahon, telling her she was already a winner...

No, this is not a repeat from 1990.

I'm going to ask the burning question that's on everyone's mind.

Was she just a skeleton after 5 years or did she turn into a mummy?

What's an OAP? 'Old Assed Person'?

/yes, going to hell and won't have to stand in line

TheMega: What's an OAP? 'Old Assed Person'?

/yes, going to hell and won't have to stand in line

google it.

This will probably happen to me. I have no friends. Now I'm really sad.

I'm already creeped out from that serial killer thread, I didn't need to see Isabella's picture jump out at me after the page loaded.

???

C'mon, a rotting corpse leaves a stench that would knock you flat, you can't tell me nobody noticed a bad smell, insects, SOMETHING. Especially in an apartment.

It's a little sad that she died alone and apparently unloved.

Forget the bills, what about all your porno your family will find?

TheMega: What's an OAP? 'Old Assed Person'?

/yes, going to hell and won't have to stand in line

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Red Means Go: This will probably happen to me. I have no friends. Now I'm really sad.

Same here...after the cats eat me.

Red Means Go: This will probably happen to me. I have no friends. Now I'm really sad.

Oh, c'mon, I will be your friend.
Oregon? Ummm. That's pretty far away.

Never mind.

GoSurfing: if you are rich

2 weeks for the rest of us

Rich is a label lazy people give to people who work hard and don't squander the result of their labor.

/almost debt free
//in six months I'll have two months living expenses in the bank

You down with OAP?
no, I can't get uuuupp!

It's kind of weird... when you look at the picture of her apartment. For instance, that roll of paper towels on the floor.

That roll has been there for five years, just sitting there, untouched. All of these 'things' and nobody to use them...

I never understand in these situations how no one notices the mail piling up.

I pay 90% of my bills automatically but I still get all sorts of mail. Think of how much junk mail someone would have after 5 years.

"Two, please."
"One and one OAP."

/got stuff to do

vaconex: Rich is a label lazy people give to people who work hard and don't squander the result of their labor.

Go to hell. Really.

TheMega: What's an OAP? 'Old Assed Person'?

/yes, going to hell and won't have to stand in line

OAP=Old age pensioner. Senior citizen in U.S. speak.

snoproblem: ???

C'mon, a rotting corpse leaves a stench that would knock you flat, you can't tell me nobody noticed a bad smell, insects, SOMETHING. Especially in an apartment.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger probably wouldn't agree with that. After all, her 77-year-old mother was found on the floor of her condo after quietly decomposing into her carpeting for several months.

/Dr. Laura... definitely not her Mom's kid

I'm sure that my TF subscription would go through every 19th, until the end of time.

Anybody else wondering if her apartment is rent controlled?

Well, just me then.

GoSurfing: if you are rich

2 weeks for the rest of us

So your definition of "rich" is anyone who has more than 2 weeks worth of savings?

Damn! I guess I should quit my job and buy that Porsche I've always wanted.

ibanezdude: I'm going to ask the burning question that's on everyone's mind.

Was she just a skeleton after 5 years or did she turn into a mummy?

It depends on the conditions. If it was not humid in the apartment, she may have mummified. In an apartment with the right conditions, a body will often partially mummify and partially putrefy. Decomposition in early stages is pretty fast.

I also find it hard to believe she was there a full 5 years. They seem to be basing that solely on some of the neighbors indicating they hadn't seen her for 5 years. I also have trouble accepting that nobody would notice the smell outside the apartment for that long. The smell travels well and would get into the hall and into other areas.

vaconex: GoSurfing: if you are rich

2 weeks for the rest of us

Rich is a label lazy people give to people who work hard and don't squander the result of their labor.

/almost debt free
//in six months I'll have two months living expenses in the bank

Wow, I like that. It is quite true for the most part.

This is one of those stories that takes "minding your own business" into "head up your ass" level.

5 years... Just wow. RIP, Isabella. Forgive the rest of us idiots.

/U.S. or U.K. it doesn't matter, TRY to remember the elderly.

Crazy Bacon Legs: It depends on the conditions. If it was not humid in the apartment, she may have mummified. In an apartment with the right conditions, a body will often partially mummify and partially putrefy. Decomposition in early stages is pretty fast.

I also find it hard to believe she was there a full 5 years. They seem to be basing that solely on some of the neighbors indicating they hadn't seen her for 5 years. I also have trouble accepting that nobody would notice the smell outside the apartment for that long. The smell travels well and would get into the hall and into other areas.


Well, if she died in the summer and had window fans venting outwards, it could reduce the humidity and stench quite a bit (Arizona would be an ideal location for natural mummification to occur).

I think the cop cars ought to have "Sniffer Chips" put on them which detect the stench of rotting human flesh. Could catch serial killers who stash their victims in their homes and tell when Granny and Grandpa have passed on from the street.

Gridlock: Crazy Bacon Legs: It depends on the conditions. If it was not humid in the apartment, she may have mummified. In an apartment with the right conditions, a body will often partially mummify and partially putrefy. Decomposition in early stages is pretty fast.

I also find it hard to believe she was there a full 5 years. They seem to be basing that solely on some of the neighbors indicating they hadn't seen her for 5 years. I also have trouble accepting that nobody would notice the smell outside the apartment for that long. The smell travels well and would get into the hall and into other areas.


Well, if she died in the summer and had window fans venting outwards, it could reduce the humidity and stench quite a bit (Arizona would be an ideal location for natural mummification to occur).

I think the cop cars ought to have "Sniffer Chips" put on them which detect the stench of rotting human flesh. Could catch serial killers who stash their victims in their homes and tell when Granny and Grandpa have passed on from the street.

Not to get too dramatic, but what would really help is if neighbors were a bit more neighborly. People will happily walk by an apartment where the stink could knock a mule over without blinking. It's not until the decomposition starts leaking into the hall that anyone bothers to ask questions (new carpet in the hall is expensive).

Chelsea Clinton Is Carrot Top's Lost Twin: snoproblem: ???

C'mon, a rotting corpse leaves a stench that would knock you flat, you can't tell me nobody noticed a bad smell, insects, SOMETHING. Especially in an apartment.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger probably wouldn't agree with that. After all, her 77-year-old mother was found on the floor of her condo after quietly decomposing into her carpeting for several months.

/Dr. Laura... definitely not her Mom's kid

Bleeearggh! Dr. Laura? Mom rotting into the carpet?
Two images I didn't need. "Dr" Laura's fuzzy 'tang and an old woman turning into a smelly mush on the floor.

Charlotte: I never understand in these situations how no one notices the mail piling up.

I pay 90% of my bills automatically but I still get all sorts of mail. Think of how much junk mail someone would have after 5 years.

It looks like a mail slot on the door, so it would have to be several feet deep before the postman would notice. And he said she didn't get much mail anyway.

rich no lonely yes
that's the way the world works
people like this lady are in houses all over the world
just waiting to be found

a. She should have had children that looked after her.
b. Couldn't they have forced her into a home at some point?
c. shiat like this sometimes happens.
d. Would a camera placed somewhere have helped?

/ c. shiat like this sometimes happens

and that's okay ;)

Rich is a label lazy people give to people who work hard and don't squander the result of their labor.

/almost debt free
//in six months I'll have two months living expenses in the bank

Ha! You're pretty new to earning your own living then? Two months expenses isn't even close to what you should have saved. That can disappear pretty quick if the car you use to get to work breaks down, or any kind of medical emergency, or anything really. Won't be debt free for long unless you're lucky.

Rich is the label we give to people who grew up lucky or with enough of daddy's help that they are completely out of touch with real finances.

/ Yes, I know, feeding the troll. But that's what makes fark fun.

vaconex: Rich is a label lazy people give to people who work hard



sorry bub but your description does not qualify you to relate to being "rich". and in most cases the real "rich" inherit their money.

ktybear: rich no lonely yes
that's the way the world works
people like this lady are in houses all over the world
just waiting to be found

Cool! I'm going out right now and try and find dead people in my neighborhood! I'll be rich biotch! (honk honk)

vaconex:

Rich is a label lazy people give to people who work hard and don't squander the result of their labor.

Being a troll must really be paying off for you, Valtrex! Congrats!

vaconex: .
/almost debt free
//in six months I'll have two months living expenses in the bank

Holy shiat! You are farking rich! 2 months? You have GOT to be lying.

GratuityIncluded: a. She should have had children that looked after her.
b. Couldn't they have forced her into a home at some point?
c. shiat like this sometimes happens.
d. Would a camera placed somewhere have helped?

/ c. shiat like this sometimes happens



a. She was a "career woman", no time for family, she only care about her career and thinking that a career will be there for her when she old.

b. Nope, not when her rent and pills are paid by direct debit.

c. More often than you think.

d. nope.

I wonder how many dead people there are layin around town. Sounds like a good idea for an adventure

Sometimes shiat happens... life isnt all puppies and rainbows you know? Actually it's pretty much the opposite. She died of old age, what else do you want? There are far worse ways she could have gone out.

On the topic of rich -- every person's perspective is different. Money is not a goal to some people (it damn sure is to me though) The ones that didn't have to work for it live in a sort of alternate reality from the rest of us.

Granny must have been packing a lotta money into her account - good for her.

To the guy that has 2 months of living expenses saved up - I do congratulate you, you are better off than a large majority in this country. I hope you keep going and get about 6 months of expenses under your belt before you slow down. Paycheck to paycheck is no place to be, it's a reality though for many. Anyone can work hard and become debt free, the problem is most are not willing to make the choices they need to make to put them on the right track.

This is exactly why I have a "dead-man's switch" on my computer. After two weeks of no activity, it mails out some emails and updates my myspace/facebook/twitter status.

xombie_a_go_go: rent

my apartment is rent controlledxombie_a_go_go: Anybody else wondering if her apartment is rent controlled?

Well, just me then.

my apartment is rent controlled, it still goes up 2.5% a year if the rent check is even one cent off they'll take you to court.

fark you Lembi crime family

accelerus: Granny must have been packing a lotta money into her account - good for her.

or her social security (or whatever the British equivalent is called) covered the rent, power, gas, phone etc etc etc.

Hopefully if something were to happen to me, some farker would notice my absence of fark posts and alert authorities.

FTFA: Horrified police officers discovered her corpse after a man living below reported water dripping through his ceiling.

OK, so she died with the water running. Water takes longer than 5 years to come thru the ceiling downstairs.

Longer? Helooooo???

I mean, water is running and it takes 5 years to come thru downstairs? Something's not right here, and I don;t just mean in my head.

Bagelox-99: Longer? Helooooo???i>

That's what your Mom said. :D

Sadly, this is not that uncommon now.

NobleHam: Sadly, this is not that uncommon now.

Ppl are living too long, becoming total lame-os no one wants to interact with. Have a social life and make lots of money or it'll happen to you, too.

It's a wee shame

C'mon, a rotting corpse leaves a stench that would knock you flat, you can't tell me nobody noticed a bad smell, insects, SOMETHING. Especially in an apartment.

Shiat, man, you def do not live at my complex, where these human Priuses flush once a week to reduce theirz carbon footprint.

/swallowing back down the vomit after reading PickinWhisper's sub...
//ahh, breakfast. Most important meal of the day. Gets' ya goin' ... Hot sour Domino's pizza from last nite.
///Take only footprints, leave only pictures.

Bagelox-99: OK, so she died with the water running. Water takes longer than 5 years to come thru the ceiling downstairs.

Heh! That wasn't water that was dripping. (j/k)

It's more likely that a pipe in her apartment developed a leak rather than the water was running all those years. If the water was running steadily all those years before she was discovered you'd think the water utility company would have noticed a spike in her bills and made an inquiry.

Bathia_Mapes: Bagelox-99: OK, so she died with the water running. Water takes longer than 5 years to come thru the ceiling downstairs.

Heh! That wasn't water that was dripping. (j/k)

It's more likely that a pipe in her apartment developed a leak rather than the water was running all those years. If the water was running steadily all those years before she was discovered you'd think the water utility company would have noticed a spike in her bills and made an inquiry.

I assume she wasn't taking showers or using the toilet. Kinda hard when you are dead. A slow leak would probably mask any 'strange' water usage.

Depressing story really.

You'd have thought the postman might have noticed something was up....

I'm going to appear a heartless biatch; but so what if she died alone and nobody noticed? It appears from local observations that she was not a sad person and as such I can only assume that she was a loner and was quite happy with that. I highly doubt she would have wanted busy bodies, who have no other reason then feeding their own self worth, visiting her because she was old and alone. As a loner she would have known that there was a very high probability she could die alone and not be discovered. I am also 100% sure that this once in a life time habit of dying alone did not have a negative emotional effect on her.

Guest: I'm going to appear a heartless biatch; but so what if she died alone and nobody noticed? It appears from local observations that she was not a sad person and as such I can only assume that she was a loner and was quite happy with that. I highly doubt she would have wanted busy bodies, who have no other reason then feeding their own self worth, visiting her because she was old and alone. As a loner she would have known that there was a very high probability she could die alone and not be discovered. I am also 100% sure that this once in a life time habit of dying alone did not have a negative emotional effect on her.

She sounds like me. I should have married her. Eh?

All you need is a 'bot to scan for "cops" and "doughnuts" in the title and automatically post the "lots of cop cars in front of doughnut shop" pic, post pedobear or Chris Hansen images when "child" shows up in the thread title, and post "WHARGARBL dog" at completely random times.

In short, image posting is the easiest form of Turing Test for a program to pass.

No one would know you were dead. The computer can take over all the functions of your life anyways.

ignite ice: It's kind of weird... when you look at the picture of her apartment. For instance, that roll of paper towels on the floor.

That roll has been there for five years, just sitting there, untouched. All of these 'things' and nobody to use them...

Sounds like an episode of Life After People.

Hobodeluxe: vaconex: Rich is a label lazy people give to people who work hard



sorry bub but your description does not qualify you to relate to being "rich". and in most cases the real "rich" inherit their money.

False. Check out The Forbes 400 some year. About 80% of millionaires are self made, commrade.

Guest: I'm going to appear a heartless biatch; but so what if she died alone and nobody noticed? It appears from local observations that she was not a sad person and as such I can only assume that she was a loner and was quite happy with that. I highly doubt she would have wanted busy bodies, who have no other reason then feeding their own self worth, visiting her because she was old and alone. As a loner she would have known that there was a very high probability she could die alone and not be discovered. I am also 100% sure that this once in a life time habit of dying alone did not have a negative emotional effect on her.

You must be a real hit at parties.

Guest: I am also 100% sure that this once in a life time habit of dying alone did not have a negative emotional effect on her.

I think you are correct that her dead body did not suffer any shame, remorse, pain, etc. at sitting there, unnoticed, for 5 years. Stories like these are sad, though, because people infer that her life, prior to her demise, must have also been lonely, else she would have been noticed. They also may infer that she died slowly - perhaps she fell and broke a hip, and lay there dying for days before she finally succumbed to dehydration. That, too, is sad.

There's also the ick factor that there could be a rotting corpse next door to you... right... now.... Booga.

As for you Farkers who think this could happen to you, get out of your farking house already! My God. Or have kids. I can't even have a pee without my kids finding me, no matter how stealthy I try to be about it.

There is no life inside of your computer - that which you are interpreting as "interaction" is a simulation. Take a friggin' walk. If you aren't talking to an actual person with a face and a pulse at least once a day, you are doing it wrong.

vaconex: GoSurfing: if you are rich

2 weeks for the rest of us

Rich is a label lazy people give to people who work hard and don't squander the result of their labor.

/almost debt free
//in six months I'll have two months living expenses in the bank

I prefer to use the definition of rich taught to us by the progressives.

Rich - (noun) Anybody who makes one dollar more than you do.

Works well when you need to soak the "rich" with more taxes and also get the masses of the "common folk" on your side because you know that most of the money is in the middle class.

Oznog: All you need is a 'bot to scan for "cops" and "doughnuts" in the title and automatically post the "lots of cop cars in front of doughnut shop" pic, post pedobear or Chris Hansen images when "child" shows up in the thread title, and post "WHARGARBL dog" at completely random times.

In short, image posting is the easiest form of Turing Test for a program to pass.

No one would know you were dead. The computer can take over all the functions of your life anyways.

You forgot about the picture of the bunny with a pancake on its head!

Little.Alex: Hobodeluxe: vaconex: Rich is a label lazy people give to people who work hard



sorry bub but your description does not qualify you to relate to being "rich". and in most cases the real "rich" inherit their money.

False. Check out The Forbes 400 some year. About 80% of millionaires are self made, commrade.


Uhhhh... he said RICH. Like 40 Billion-ish...

/we probably disagree what self-made means too

I have yet to see a 1-man company produce a single millionaire, much less a billionaire. This leads me to believe that no single man is capable of producing such a vast fortune off of his own mortal devices. So, if a person can single handedly create such wealth despite this, where does this huge pile of money come from, and why does it stick onto one individual?

/ Hint: Someone else is working hard too.
// But not getting paid.

I kind of wish that I'd lived in this woman's building, I might've noticed that she'd vanished from public view.

And then I could have lived rent free for the last five years!

Oznog: All you need is a 'bot to scan for "cops" and "doughnuts" in the title and automatically post the "lots of cop cars in front of doughnut shop" pic, post pedobear or Chris Hansen images when "child" shows up in the thread title, and post "WHARGARBL dog" at completely random times.

In short, image posting is the easiest form of Turing Test for a program to pass.

No one would know you were dead. The computer can take over all the functions of your life anyways.

Eleanor Rigby unavailable for comment.

Goddamn automatic bill pay. It can start sucking cash out of your account immediately, but damn if it doesn't take a month and a half for it to stop doing so. Like a mosquito, in that respect.

vaconex: GoSurfing: if you are rich

2 weeks for the rest of us

Rich is a label lazy people give to people who work hard and don't squander the result of their labor.

/almost debt free
//in six months I'll have two months living expenses in the bank

Hey douche, I've worked hard every day of my life.

I could work circles around you.

Try saying that smart ass shiat to my face, because I'd love to punch it.

Working hard does not equate wealth anyways farkbrains.

My simple comment was reflecting the tough times ALL of us are going through.

And yes, I stand by initial statement...because to me, if you can stop working today, and be secure for 5 years, you are rich.

/shut the fark up

ignite ice: That roll (of paper towels) has been there for five years, just sitting there, untouched. All of these 'things' and nobody to use them...

In pharoah's tombs, they've found loaves of bread that have been sitting, uneaten, for more than 3000 years.

Yum!

I don't believe a word of that article. The Sun is a tabloid right?

Stunned neighbour Cleo Gifford, 34, said nobody had visited tragic Isabella in 18 YEARS.
She added: "It was a wee shame. She was always cleaning, and would go hiking. She was very fit and only became frail in later years."


People never visited yet knew she was "always cleaning."
People never visited, for 18 years, and yet knew she hiked. And they knew when she became frail, despite never visiting.


Dorothy Crystal, joint owner of Isabella's optometrist, said: "I'm absolutely shocked. It is a close-knit community and I find it incredible nobody knew she had died for all this time."


After 5 years its highly unlikely her optometrist would even remember her name.

I'm sorry, I'm supposed to be suspending disbelief, I don't mean to ruin the entertainment.

They all connived to bump the bizzare old biatch off and cash her pension checks.

Excuse me, cheques.

snoproblem: ???

C'mon, a rotting corpse leaves a stench that would knock you flat, you can't tell me nobody noticed a bad smell, insects, SOMETHING. Especially in an apartment.

It happened to my twenty-six-year old daughter this past March. Ten days dead from cardiac arrythmia, on the floor of her apartment; her work place kept calling her but it took them that long to decide something was wrong (she'd called in sick on the first day) and get someone to open the apartment. I heard it was not a pretty sight. I still don't understand why the neighbors didn't notice, or more to the point, why they ignored it.