How long would it take for someone to find your body?

[Reggs]

Some guy in France died in his cubical and they found him after 7 or 9 days. One of the weekend cleaning crew nudged him to ask him why he was working on the weekend.

There was also a weird story about someone in Russia who set everything up with auto-bill pay while collecting retirement checks and spent a few decades rotting away in front of their apartment TV.

 

[globetrotter]

I hear that that happens a lot in japan, too - old people getting found months after they die.

 

[Dakota rube]

My cats would have eaten much of my flesh by the time I was discovered.

 

[MetroStyles]

Originally Posted by Dakota rube

My cats had eaten much of my flesh by the time I was discovered.

Edited slightly. This sentence would be a gripping beginning to a "told in the first-person zombie voice" zombie novel.

 

[w.o.e.is.me.]

Originally Posted by Dakota rube

My cats would have eaten much of my flesh by the time I was discovered.

this would be true for me if i wasn't married.
hm.
it might be true anyway.

 

[NorCal]

Originally Posted by MetroStyles

Edited slightly. This sentence would be a gripping beginning to a "told in the first-person zombie voice" zombie novel.

I would have thought you'd make your "triumphant" return via a DT thread rather than sneaking in like a thief in the night, coming up the rear of mediocre threads like these.

 

[Lane]

depends on if I killed myself or someone killed me

 

[RyJ Maduro]

Hours to find me; maybe a day or two to realize that I'm not just passed-out drunk.

 

[Master-Classter]

Max: First time in L.A.?
Vincent: No. Tell you the truth, whenever I'm here I can't wait to leave. It's too sprawled out, disconnected. You know? That's me. You like it?
Max: It's my home.
Vincent: 17 million people. This is got to be the fifth biggest economy in the world and nobody knows each other. I read about this guy who gets on the MTA here, dies.
Max: Oh.
Vincent: Six hours he's riding the subway before anybody notices his corpse doing laps around L.A., people on and off sitting next to him. Nobody notices.

 

[acidboy]

grandfather of my friend died and no one knew of it until his neighbors could smell the stench after probably a couple of days at least. he refused to leave the house he lived in, and chose to live there alone than move with his wife to the suburbs several decades ago... I think it was the only way to die if you choose to live like that.

 

[Logan]

Living alone, weeks. Living with roommates, a day at most.

 

[forStyle]

5 days

I don't keep sustained routine contact with anyone. Just a bunch of random people I see here and there, now and then.

 

[otc]

Hopefully work would notice.

I'm reliable so it would be weird for me to miss a day of work. I would guess someone would call during the first day although I dunno how long it would take them to figure it out upon getting no answer.

My friends wouldn't find it odd if I didn't talk to them for a couple days and didn't pick up their calls (I get terrible reception in my apartment) but they might become concerned if I wasn't on gchat during the day for a while.

I'd give work slightly better odds of noticing first...and hopefully they would call my friends and people would get all "wtf?" (one coworker is a friend from school so he already knows how to call people with keys to my apartment...)

 

[Stazy]

Max one day. I keep daily contact with 5-6 people so someone would notice...

 

[FLMountainMan]

I talk with my neighbors a lot, so I'd be found pretty quickly, I think. Also, the GF and work.

On a related note, due to my hiking experiences up here, I know of several excellent places to dispose of a body. Although I did bump into a serial killer once up here doing that exact thing. (it's a long story not nearly as exciting as it sounds; Gary Michael Hilton, I didn't know that's what he was doing, and a hunter found the body the next day)