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[quote=Anonymous]My mid-boomer uncle died in December, alone in his apartment. He’d been fired from his taxi driver job a couple of months before, divorced 10 years ago, no kids.

He was found 11 days later — as best we can tell from the cell phone usage.  Neighbors noticed no loud TV, so the building super called the cops. I had tried calling on Christmas and he hadn’t picked up, but that hadn’t been enough to get me to ask for a wellness check.

I had been paying his rent since the pandemic (not a good time to be a taxi driver, and his Social Security was like $700 per month; he had worked overseas for a number of years so few credits, and of course no savings), but he was really a life-long f*ckup and jerk and had alienated a lot of people, including me — I hadn’t seen him in person for five years.  I organized a sort of memorial that was mostly his high school friends — but the one who did the most and had been the closest had also been cut off for years.

Turns out he was also a raging alcoholic; we found hundreds of bottles in the apartment. No idea how he paid for the wine, actually. Coroner hinted he was malnourished? But some sort of heart attack.

Yeah, I wonder how many people like him there are, tucked away in rent stabilized apartments (or paid off houses if their parents did better than his had). Certainly some of the high school buddies looked like they were going down the same route.[/quote]

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