I read it in my local paper, but David Letterman has been talking about it for days now in his opening monologue.
I can't get it out of my head.
Vincenzo Ricardo, 70, was dead for a year, his body was partially mummified when found, in front of a droning television set.
A year, dead. No one noticed? No one? Come on - not even the cable guy?
Okay, so he lived alone. But he had some contact with the outside world, right? Even if it was just his tax person?
No one noticed his absence. His disappearance went unchecked. His constant television noise was laughed off by neighbors.
What kind of community is Hampton Bays, New York? Doesn't the absence of one person get noticed? Is is so unlike our towns? Apparently not.
And that's where the fear comes in. When we're trying to sleep at night, when we ask ourselves those big questions - why am I here? what does it matter? - we don't really want the answer, we dread the answer, Vincenzo got.
Rest in peace.
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Your post reminds me of an article I saw a few months later. I wonder if you saw it. I joke/suspect this is how I will end up, myself...
German man found after 7 years dead in bed
Fri May 11, 2007 8:30am
BERLIN (Reuters) - The decomposed corpse of a German man was found alone in his bed after nearly seven years, police in the western city of Essen said Thursday.
The police said in a statement the man was 59 and unemployed at the time of his death. He most likely died of natural causes on November 30, 2000, the date he received a letter from the Welfare Office found in the apartment, police said.
Next to the dead man's bed police found cigarettes, an open television guide and Deutschemark coins, which came out of circulation after the euro was introduced in 2002.
The man's apartment was in a building with offices and apartments, many of which are now empty.
"No one missed him. No missing person report was ever filed," the police said.
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