Bit of poetic waxing, eh?
I wonder why a blind man would sit in front of a television? He must have had some vision. The circumstances of his death do sound pitiful and sad, but there are worse ways to go.
A very sad and vivid image.
There is one conclusion from this: The guy was a jerk. He died like that because he had no friends and no family. That is not random. I'll bet that basically, for most of his life, he was a jerk and treated people like garbage.
About me they'll say eaten by his cats.
Who paid the power bill? I call BS on this story..
Great neighbors!
The guy across the street took off for a little vacation, and the police were up here questioning all the neighbors. I thought he said afterwards he notified the post office or told the mailman, but maybe it was a different mailman who got alarmed. He was and is fine.
My daughter saved a neighbor's life when she fell, broke her hip (I think) and was like that for about three days. She loved the lady (she had helped us a lot during a crisis in my life) and went to visit her, noticed the mail had accumulated. Her son was a minister of a big church here. They put her in a nursing home after that. I went to visit her in the nursing home a couple times along with another lady, and she was able to walk again. I took her some cookies like she had given me from time to time, and another patient walked right in the room and grabbed one off the plate. The neighbor did have Alzheimer's or senility to the point she only remembered her husband, think she didn't know me, but she was still as polite and kind like she had always been.
Another neighbor was a lawyer and had a drinking problem. His wife became mentally ill, he got help for his problem and divorced her, went to mass every day. They had a nice house and a nice life. She was on the streets and sent to a home for the mentally ill, was there for several years. Finally, she gets well enough to be on her own, her daughter is old enough to help her, and she was doing ok last I knew. He died in a nice apartment building, and they did not find his body for three days.
Heart breaking story. The woman who cared for him is an angel.
Vast isolation? How big was his house?
This is one of those threads that would be different, if everyone read the entire article, but that just doesn't happen much.
Wasn't it a couple of years ago Dr.Laura's mother was found to have been dead for two months or more alone?
He'll never know Al Gore won an Oscar.
Sound like a John Lennin song.... Imagine.. to the very n-th degree
I have no wife or children so I know unless confined to a nursing home I'll die alone. The thought never bothered me much.
Adriana Molina, 41, may have been the last person who hugged Riccardi. The caretaker used to wash his clothes and bathe him.
If she had put up with his violent tantrums longer
Riccardi was in a psychiatric hospital.
Riccardi told her he was trying to open a can when he accidentally sliced his neck. He called 911, but when officers arrived they thought he had tried to kill himself.
But his outbursts and paranoid behavior got worse.
Just a crabby old man
The author of the poem took liberties it seems. Plus I wouldn't mind dying that way. He was watching TV and just died. Sounds better than some ways people can die. In fact, sign me up for that. lol.
We all die in isolation.
That's why I rent. I figure if I croak someone will know at least two months later.