Have a routine one where people actual live people see and care about you. Hint, care about them. My kid’s primary teacher is a single mom. If she wasn’t there and nobody heard why, I would check on her, probably go to her house. I am not close to this woman but I do see her on a regular basis. The flip side is a friend I considered note the phrasing who wanted me to check on her. This lasted about 5 days until she bit my head off, telling me she was an adult didn’t need to answer to me and she would let me know if she needed me, the very thing you can’t do if you are dead or unconscious. If you want people to check in with you be where you are expected and use your manners. It really is that simple. eo

Anonymous wrote:Doesn’t this seem like the most remote chance of happening?

Dying is a certainty, not a remote chance. And people do, unfortunately, die unexpectedly all the time- heart attack, aneurysm, stroke, cardiac arrest, fast moving sepsis (a friend's mother, who was in her 60s and lived alone, actually died from sepsis brought on by a common infection and went from "Gosh, I can't kick this fever and sore throat!! Maybe i'll go to the doctor tomorrow" to dead within a span of about 12 hours. Imagine if she were a single mom and just went unconscious on the couch while her baby was in the crib and no one noticed for days?) The only reason my friend's mother was found before days and days went by was because a friend came by for a pre-scheduled dinner that evening and found her near death and called 911. Anyways the point is, everyone dies and if you live alone with a small child it's absolutely a smart idea to have a check-in plan in place especially if you dont' think your workplace would notice immediately (work from home, etc) or if it happened over a weekend even

Doesn’t this seem like the most remote chance of happening?

Anonymous wrote:Get on a lot of mailing lists. Letter carriers often alert police when people haven't picked up their mail in days.

this is not a great strategy, i've left for 2 weeks and not picked up mail. no police were alerted

I think those Life Alert things (I’ve fallen and I can’t get up) require you to hit a button once a day to let them know that you are okay.

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Anonymous wrote:We have an arlo camera on my grandma and we check in with it daily to make sure everything is still okay.

I think apple watch also has a feature where it alerts if you've gotten injured or something.

You watch your grandmother? Everywhere in her home?

Yep. She's 95 years old. We make sure she's in bed. The main purpose of the arlos is to make sure her caregivers are doing what they're supposed to be doing.
Also, she has Amazon Echo Dots and she can tell Alexa to call for help.