The Silence of Death

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Got something different for you today. This is a scientific paper I just stumbled upon that piqued my interested.

You may have seen in the news the occasional story of someone found dead in advanced decay in their home...

Imagine going amiss for months or even years.. Nobody checking out if you are alive or not.. No friends, no family, no neighbors... Heck, not even the state 😅

And you may have even noticed an increasing trend reported in the news... But is there really an increasing trend or is it just a bias due to being bombarded with negative news by the media?

Well, the study in question, by researchers at University of Oxford, set out to explore exactly that...at least when it comes to England and Wales, as the title suggests 😅

A deathly silence: why has the number of people found decomposed in England and Wales been rising?

The researchers used data from the Office for National Statistics and took a novel approach to identify deaths in a state of advanced decomposition

Deaths coded as R98 ("unattended death") and R99 ("other ill-defined and unknown causes of mortality") according to the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) and previous versions, referred to as “undefined deaths”.

But why these two codes?

We focused on those deaths where decomposition has reached the stage where it was no longer possible to determine a cause of death.

To reach severe decomposition would take some time and would strongly suggest that the deceased was extremely isolated in the perimortem period.

The tldr of the study is that there does seem to be an increasing trend in the passing of time, with men having a good lead due to male privilege whatever.

The increase in people found dead from unknown causes suggests wider societal breakdowns of both formal and informal social support networks. They are concerning and warrant urgent further investigation.

An interesting finding was what happened in the 1990s and 2000s

a rapid increase in the 1990s and 2000s. The increase seen for both sexes in the 1990s and 2000s is particularly surprising given the substantial improvements seen in mortality during this period.

Maybe the rise of technology that brings us closer together yet further apart? Dunno.

Just another paper showing we get lonelier and lonelier...

Anyways, next time say a hello to that neighbor of yours or whatever. Maybe they will notice the moment you go amiss instead of reporting the stench coming out of your apartment years after the fact 😅

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Nice! We can all look forward to decomposing away for months before anyone realizes we're dead. Of course if you're dead you probably won't really care anymore...

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I prefer to go this way

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Party time! Fill the casket with some cannabis smoke, inject the veins with alcohol and heroine?

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But what if I go say hi to a neighbor and he's decomposing in his house!? That would be selfish of him don't you think? He should really get some friends before it's too late ☠️

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Free sex

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Most unemployment plebs that don't pay taxes, else the state would find them fast!

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Kodokushi = Lonely Death

It's more common in Japan. They have even appointed a minister for curbin at kodokushi.

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appointed a minister for curbin at kodokushi.

Damn, that's really sad

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Honestly, I'm not surprised this is a growing issue... we live more and more of our lives without every leaving our dwellings. We can order everything from food to medicine to dry goods online and have it delivered to our doors. Thanks to the Internet, many people have "friends" they have never actually seen in physical space. Families become more and more estranged. Thanks to growing extremism and reactionary behavior, we decrease the size of our social circles to our own echochambers. Thanks to the whole Covid circus, more people than ever now telecommute from home.

It's some morbid shit, allright. And the ad network LEO is using chose to present this:

If I'm dead and rotting, how am I supposed to call a funeral home?

Oh, wait... that'll be the next step in Human "Evolution:" You subscribe to a beeper service of some kind that dispatches the mortician if you haven't had a heartbeat for 30 minutes. All very neat and tidy. Nobody need know you were ever alive...

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You subscribe to a beeper service of some kind that dispatches the mortician if you haven't had a heartbeat for 30 minutes. All very neat and tidy. Nobody need know you were ever alive...

Lmao sounds like a solid business plan

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I can't say for sure if it's the patient's fault or that of social workers. But what of cases where they have family, do they not care or pay them a visit. This should be the slowest and the most painful way to die, 'no body cares'. So sad!

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I feel bad that this issues is growing day by day. There is no point that technology great but trust me, it sometimes limit us from talking and mingling with others.
That way, we may begin to get cool with staying inside for weeks without coming out or even talking to anyone as long as we have the CharGPT to talk to…
Really crazy…

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Hmm.. That's so terrible. The more we become advanced technologically and the busier we become the more we become disconnected with society. Covid isolation just added to our already growing state of isolation and we've become loners. Our phones and gadgets also help the process. Sad world we live in, thank God this part of the globe is still a bit more sociable.

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It's truly sad when someone passes away and it goes unnoticed. While I'm sure not all of the fault lies with them, it should serve as a reminder to value our relationships, and especially those where we engage face-to-face.

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Yeah, as I grow older I value my diminishing relationships more and more

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tried to think of something funny to say but dying alone is kind of buzz kill :P

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Come on you can do better 😂

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Technology has improved a lot and I think that has definitely lead to people being more out of touch. So it sucks to hear that we can't figure out how people died because we can't catch it in time.

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I don't know whether it is technology or weakening family/environmental relations that has caused this, but it is true. I hope one day I won't be found alone in my house 10 years after I died :P

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It is a fact that one day we all have to leave this world and all of us get worried when we think about it, but when we have to go one day, it is better that a person should spend every part of his life. The moment should be enjoyed.

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I have seen someone who is planning to end it all because he doesn't not feel loved by friends and because nobody check up on him to even see whether he is still living or not

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