Boy discovers mummified body hanging in Ohio home

[oldhippie]

10. I was just thinking about that ....

My nearest neighbor has lived next door to me for over 15 years. He is a nice, friendly guy. Yet we only see or talk to each other maybe 2-3 times per year, always when we happen to be outside cutting our lawns on our lawn tractors and we happen to get close enough, and then we'll shut off the mowers and chat awhile.

Our neighborhood is all one acre lots, so we are a bit spread out. We will wave to each other if we happen to be on the street in our trucks at the same time, but the people in our neighborhood are very rarely in a place where we can chat.

It's not too hard to imagine someone having a heart attack at home and no neighbor knowing about it for a long time. If not for relatives or other visitors (which I, for instance, never have to my house) it may be a long time before someone notices. The most likely situation is that a build up of mail would alert the mail carrier.