City Inn Bristol - How can somebody lie dead for 5-8 years without anyone missing him?

How can somebody lie dead for 5-8 years without anyone missing him?

A man in his 70's has been found dead in sheltered accommodation in Bristol. They put the smell down to 'poor personal hygene'. I think it is disgusting nobody missed him. 'His family have been informed, they live in the area'. what kind of family is that, they can't have been to see him for over a decade! I has just been on our local news. I would have posted a link but the web site has not been updated yet.

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Its very sad.Some families are just like that and dont look out for their own.
Maybe he was a real b****ard. They say 'family' but that doesn't necessarliy mean immediate family. It could mean second cousin twice removed. Don't judge without knowledge.
thats disgusting, mean, cruel and WRONG. why didnt the family miss him? why didnt they think oh we havent heard anything from him.? they should be shot or put in prison.
Mmmm but he may have been a loner, or even may have been not so nice to his family in the past. We just never know the situations do we?
What is the point of sheltered accommodation if they don't keep an eye on the people living there, i thought that was the whole point. And as for the family well.....
i think this is an outrage to think this happened in sheltered housing, someone cant be doing there job properly if they thought the smell was down to personal hygene its easy to judge families who have nothing to do with there elderly parents but maybe they wasnt treated right as kids ,just because you are old does not mean you was never evil
His family were oblivious, which happens. What concerns me more, is that he was living in Sheltered Accomodation and no-one thought to check on him within that time span. Where did you find out about this from anyhow?
thats terrible.
10 years they are saying. I know ! Horrid isn't it, but the guy he was sharing with has serious mental health problems. They were a couple of single men living together, in their late 60's. Maybe he didn't have any other family. We will have to wait and see what the reports say. Poor guy.. and poor flat mate who didn't do anything about it, because he was mentally ill.
Very sad. Whatever the reasons it is just such a shame that the man didn't have someone close enough to miss him when he had gone.
Sadly, this scenario is far too common.
You need to wait for the details, there may well be two or more sides to this story.
yeah.
Unbelievable. Thank goodness we are a close family. How is it possible that nobody could miss him , maybe they did not get on , just sad , so very sad. Poor old man.:(
just like I always say; having a family does not mean you will have someone to look after you in your old age. I am absolutely appalled though to read that he lived in sheltered accommodation. What exactly did the staff do who gets paid to look in on him every once in a while. Hope they got closed down.
PUZZLING TO ME. Can you imagine how lonely he must have been without anybody even wondering about him ? WE ARE INHUMANE. ARE WE NOT TO BE OUR BROTHERS KEEPERS.? AND TO LOVE ALL AS I HAVE LOVE YOU. ( THE BIBLE) UNBELIEVABLE . OBVIOUSLY NO ONE CARED .. TO CHECK ON THE POOR SOUL. THE GENTLEMAN'S FAMILY WAS ESTRANGED FROM HIM. AND THERE IS NON GOOD AMONG YOU... NOT ONE GOOD SAMARITAN EXCEPT THE PEOPLE WHO FOUND HIM WE ARE LIVING IN HORRID TIMES AND I AM WONDERING IF WE ARE NOT CLOSE TO HUMANITIES' LAST DAYS
I have a sick brother I haven't spoken to in 6 years. And if he died I would not cry. He has taught me that I must not trust him with any personal information because he will twist it into a weapon and wound me. He told me that to him our Mother was just so much dead weight. (because she had gotten old and had lost her sharpness.) He had a comfortable financial situation but he refused to do even his 1/6th of caring for her needs in her final years and called all four of his sisters "the 4 B's" and his brother a "cowering wimp" for not approving of him ignoring a woman who was the soul of kindness and gentleness. Our mom never let him down the way he let her down. He refused to visit her for four years and then had the nerve to come and show off his two year old grandson at her funeral. I was physically ill to the point of having to rush out of the room and vomit. That is how something like that occurs. And tragic as it may look, it is probably something the man brought about himself. And I forgave my brother three different times in an attemp to work out our relationship but he continued to hurt all of us. I simply can not manage the 7 times 70 when I know he was not raised that badly. He simply needs his spiteful ways more than he will ever need his family.
I will answer your question its quit simple. In the Bible it says....In the last days PARENTS will have unnatural affection for their own children. In other words they are raping them and Hating them.... NOT CARING about them...at all. It also says children will become sooo disobedient and out of control people will not know what to do. Our world is in the last days. Read your bible...I think that's in Galatians. And in 2Timothy
wow thats so awful. Poor Guy. xxx
I've heard of this sort of thing happening before, just never of this duration. 5 years is certainly a long time for anything to go unnoticed. It's tragic but apparently it happens a lot.
Sad,but the bloke was kept sheltered,in one sense.
Doesn't sheltered accommodation mean there is some kind of warden who is supposed to keep an eye out for people, maybe the warden has some explaining to do!
How very sad, here's a link to the story Val
Wow that is really sad. I bet the family will "come around" now just to make sure he didn't have any money or valuables lying around that they can claim. My mother worked in a nursing home. Some people were just put there and forgotten. Until they died. Then lots of family were there all sad. I guess the nurses and other care givers "glaring" at them didn't phase them in the least. I couldn't have worked there because I would have said something like "oh that's too bad that you live out of the country and couldn't get in to see your mother while she was alive", knowing full well they were local. I'd get fired for sure.
not all families are close sadly, some row, some fall out and never speak again, some choose to be away from them, but youd think a doctor, neighbour, anyone would have missed him, sad,
5-8 years??? That is the saddest thing I have heard in a long time. How on earth was he not missed if he lived in sheltered accommodation, there should have been a warden or something. Bad hygiene is one thing but a decomposing corpse, come on, surely someone must have known!! Nice family eh?
It happens; every couple of years someone is discovered dead in their home or flat, undiscovered for years. Some people are just loners, they either don't have family or don't keep in contact... so there's no one to miss them. You think that the council or utilities would notice something? I've heard of people sitting dead on a park bench for a couple of days!
I completely agree with Cowboy Baby. It says in the bible in the last days what she said. This is NOTHING to the horror that is coming. When the stupid Americans vote in the wrong president. Then a whole world wide BLACK STORM is coming~! You better get right with the Lord. Only those who have a DEEP FAITH in God will make it. TO HEAVEN. WE will be FAITHFUL even UNTO DEATH. NOT blow ourselves up either. Some of us will be killed for believeing in JESUS.