liberaldemocrat7
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Sun Feb-18-07 06:15 AM
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Man found in his chair with the television on a year after he died. |
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I'm not making this up. I read this today in Newsday in New York. A man, 70 years of age died about a year ago but his body got found preserved by mummification because he sat in his living room which did not have much humidity over the past year. Yes, the television remained on for a year while his body sat in the chair. Neighbors did not notify anyone until a pipe burst recently and sent water over a second floor window over the garage in front.
Bizarre.
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Sun Feb-18-07 06:18 AM
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1. I better go check. Might be my hubby :( nt |
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Sun Feb-18-07 06:25 AM
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2. That's sad. But what a patient electric company, to be unpaid for a year |
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and still not turn off his electricity!
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Sun Feb-18-07 06:27 AM
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4. Probably had an automatice debit on his bank account.... |
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Edited on Sun Feb-18-07 06:27 AM by rfranklin
Otherwise that electric would have been shut off.
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Sun Feb-18-07 07:20 AM
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8. Imagine his cable bill! |
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Wonder if his mail contained monthy rate-increase letters?
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Sun Feb-18-07 06:26 AM
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3. And here's the scary part... |
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...he was one of the people being tracked for the Nielsen ratings. :evilgrin:
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Sun Feb-18-07 06:35 AM
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Sun Feb-18-07 09:21 AM
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18. Thank god we were tapping his phone and email. n/t. |
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Edited on Sun Feb-18-07 09:21 AM by jazzjunkysue
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Sun Feb-18-07 09:57 AM
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22. I hereby nominate you for a Duzy Award. |
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Sun Feb-18-07 06:37 AM
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6. Some of those game shows or american idle do seem |
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to run on interminably. I was thinking it might be the do-it-yourself channel with all sorts of kool ideas attached, when it occured to me he must have been watching something more like that leave it to angel show-whatever its name is-or maybe Larry King "live!"
Bored to death is common.
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Sun Feb-18-07 06:46 AM
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7. Reminds me of the old joke... |
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A Man calls 911 and says to the operator: "I think my wife is dead." She replies, "What do you mean you THINK she's dead?". He retorts, "Well the sex is the ssame but the disnes are piling up."
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Sun Feb-18-07 08:11 AM
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waiting for the MSM to report the truth about the Bush asministration. The same fate could await all of us.
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Mon Feb-19-07 10:35 PM
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Give me a break! I am NO FAN of Bush, but DAMN...it's OBVIOUS that there was some breakdown in the "system". I am simply amazed at some of the responses here!
Am old man died...and all anyone can do is laugh and point fingers at the WRONG person. His CITY has MUCH to do with what happened to him!
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Mon Feb-19-07 09:39 PM
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Sun Feb-18-07 07:45 AM
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9. ....who paid his electric and water bills..?? |
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Sun Feb-18-07 07:47 AM
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10. I beleive they appeared on autopilot. |
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He may have had the companies take the monthly payments out of his bank account.
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Sun Feb-18-07 07:57 AM
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11. One would think that a year's worth of mail would pile up and draw some |
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Mon Feb-19-07 09:52 PM
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29. He probably didn't get much mail since he was blind and alone n/t |
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Sun Feb-18-07 08:08 AM
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12. Obviously not watching |
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Sun Feb-18-07 09:04 AM
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15. Hope he had the extended warranty on the TV. |
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Mon Feb-19-07 10:30 PM
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Who the hell cares about an extended warranty.
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Mon Feb-19-07 10:37 PM
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I am AMAZED by some of the comments here.
Jeez.. I hope NO ONE must encounter such fate... this is a VERY sad story. People LAUGHING about it should be ASHAMED of themselves.
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Sun Feb-18-07 09:07 AM
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16. What a beautiful commentary on America's consumer culture. |
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Sun Feb-18-07 09:15 AM
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17. It's more a commentary on the state of |
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community, the notion of neighbourhood and the 'me only' culture.
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Sun Feb-18-07 09:31 AM
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19. Yes, but you must understand this. |
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While seated in front of your television you are the ultimate consumer, you are consuming product information which will guide you into making more and more purchases. They don't call it programming for nothing. The fact that this guy died and nobody noticed and in fact his dead corpse was still receiving broadcast consumer signal is a fantastic commentary on America's priorities and as you stated our disconnect with our own communities and our fellow human beings. The community we now inhabit might as well be a grassy meadow next to the slaughterhouse for we are all merely grazing stock.
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Mon Feb-19-07 10:31 PM
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35. Reminds me of Dawn Of The Dead |
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with all the zombies stumbling around the mall.. Welcome to DU!
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Sun Feb-18-07 09:32 AM
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20. Television has the same effect on me. |
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Sun Feb-18-07 09:39 AM
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21. Here's the story from CNN |
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Edited on Sun Feb-18-07 09:42 AM by DesertRat
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Sun Feb-18-07 11:16 AM
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24. Another hope for my afterlife. |
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Sun Feb-18-07 11:33 AM
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26. I'm sorry to put a damper on all the jokes but I think it's very |
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SAD that this poor old guy had no one in his life who cared enough about him to not even know he'd been dead for a whole year. What a lonely, pitiful life he must have lead.
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Mon Feb-19-07 10:05 PM
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30. Why is being alone so pitiful? |
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Maybe he'd already lost all the people he loved and didn't feel like starting over. To me it would be sadder if he'd died logged in to "Love@aol" or yahoo! personals.
When did we evolve from a nation with an individualistic creed into a place where the greatest tragedy is being alone? I'd rather die alone than surrounded by ghouls and fools--the usual attendants of a deathwatch.
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Mon Feb-19-07 10:30 PM
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It is sad. And so are the jokes.
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Sun Feb-18-07 11:49 AM
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27. I guess truth is stranger than fiction. |
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Edited on Sun Feb-18-07 11:49 AM by geomon666
70 year old blind man dies while watching tv and waits a year before being discovered by police investigating broken water pipes.
You can't think this stuff up.
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Mon Feb-19-07 10:16 PM
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31. What a sad cultural commentary |
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The president flies to DC, interrupting his vacation to sign the Terri Schiavo bill to save a single life.
Meanwhile, a year later, an old man dies and nobody notices for a whole year.
Will the president even acknowledge this death?
Spare me the response.
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Mon Feb-19-07 10:27 PM
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32. But you must admit, not a bad way to go. |
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He was at home in his comfortable and familiar surroundings, engaging in a passtime that he presumably found enjoyable or at least restful, and quietly nodded off to sleep. Contrast that with the icy sterility, glaring lights, noise, chaos, and uproar of your typical intensive-care hospital ward, poked and prodded and hassled by strangers, and which would you choose? I know my answer.
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