Dying Alone

[Anonymous]

Nearly 40,000 people died home alone in Japan this year, report says. How to avoid that as a society in USA?



https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyx6wwp5d5o

[Anonymous]

Be nicer to your kids and friends.

[Anonymous]

Get a roommate

[Anonymous]

It's happenkng in US and will continue to as boomers approach ennd.

[Anonymous]

Why would you want to subject someone who cares about you to watching you die? I live alone so don't have to worry about it (unless I drop dead suddenly while a guest at someone's home but that's so infrequent the likelihood is small).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's happenkng in US and will continue to as boomers approach ennd.

Most boomers are in senior living communitues or have kids nearby who check on them.

[Anonymous]

I plan to get a hospice nurse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's happenkng in US and will continue to as boomers approach ennd.

Most boomers are in senior living communitues or have kids nearby who check on them.

Source?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's happenkng in US and will continue to as boomers approach ennd.

Most boomers are in senior living communitues or have kids nearby who check on them.

Source?

Right? That's not true. Most boomers are clinging to their jobs and their houses to keep as much as they can for as long as they can, waiting until the last minute to burden their unsuspecting children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get a roommate

You'll be okay, but then the roommate will die alone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would you want to subject someone who cares about you to watching you die? I live alone so don't have to worry about it (unless I drop dead suddenly while a guest at someone's home but that's so infrequent the likelihood is small).

+1
As long as you don't need anything, what's wrong with disappearing on an ice floe? It's a gift.

[Anonymous]

I don't want anyone there as its misreable. You pay someone 24-7 to be with you.

[Anonymous]

"an estimated 40% of people who died alone at home were found within a day"

So most had people around.

[Anonymous]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/31/us/wells-fargo-employee-desk-arizona/index.html
Woman died in her Wells Fargo cubicle sometime between clocking in Aug 16 and Aug 20 when she was found by maintenance.

I know a guy who had a severe stroke at age 28 (he has a clotting disorder) working in a cubicle I think in Utah, on a late Friday afternoon. Nobody noticed for a few hours. He had been a PhD candidate in math but could no longer do anything but basic arithmetic (walking and speech not impaired).

[Anonymous]

As a CNA part time during college, I knew residents in their late 90s and over 100 who simply no longer had family left, and their friends were long gone. Also, when people in LTC are on Medicaid (common for those who outlive their assets) and are hospitalized, their bed stays available for a short period of time, after that you go where a bed can be found, which outside of metro areas can be a long distance from where you had been living.