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News: Reuters: Seven years from death

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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