News: Reuters: Seven years from death

July 14th, 2007 by Richy C. Leave a reply »

As I’m in the process of slowing shutting down other sites I’ve worked on (due to time constraints), I’m reposting them here. Here’s an article from the 12th of May 2007 from “Treble R News” which was going to be a Register-esque general news site.

“The decomposed corpse of a German man was found alone in his bed after nearly seven years” Reuters News reports.

I was about to say how unlikely this would be to happen in the UK – but it’s worringly likely. I did think that utility companies would notice the lack of payments and start action after just a few months: but with Direct Debits (automatic debiting of your bank account by these companies), they don’t “need” to contact you – and with remote reading of your meters they never need to visit you.

You’re very lucky if you can afford to get a milkman person delivering milk to your door – another “old style” check for people and postal delivery agents (ok, postmen) are so busy and overworked, they are unlikely to notice a build up of post as well (especially if you don’t have a glass front door).

So all your bills are automatically paid – so the first “sign” anyone would have would be once your bank account runs out of money. Only chance you stand is if a friend or family pop round – but I know sometimes I’ve left messages for my family on their voicemail for 2 or 3 weeks without having “caught” them and spoken to them….

Worrying thoughts indeed!

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