When to suspect someone might of died?

[Jesus Pimp]

There's an old lady who lives across the hall. Her apartment has been awfully quiet lately and I haven't seen her in a while or seen her lights on in her apartment. Today I noticed a strange odor in the hallway. The first thing that came to my mind is she died in her apartment and the odor from her rotting corpse is seeping into the hallway. Maybe I'm just crazy and she went on vacation somewhere. Should I suspect anything?

*Uh can someone move this to tilted living?*

[WarWagon]

Its quite possible. I would call the landlord, and I'm sure he can either give her a call, knock on the door, or even take a peek inside.

[irseg]

I'm not gonna ask why this is under Sexuality!

[Soggybagel]

LOL!!! Better move this to Tilted Living Like Jesus Pimp said asap or else...uhhh yeah.

[santafe5000]

either call the landlord or the police. Someone needs to check up on the elderly lady.

[tehblaed]

There's another side to the story that you don't know.

You see, my friends, Jesus Pimp is a necrophiliac.

[legolas]

omg, you have to talk to the landlord, who cares where the topic is just go talk with them.

[visotech]

Originally posted by Soggybagel
LOL!!! Better move this to Tilted Living Like Jesus Pimp said asap or else...uhhh yeah.

Or "Titled Not Living"?

[tehblaed]

Dark humor <3!

[amonkie]

Definitely call... even if she isn't there, the smell could be a leaky pipe or something in the apartment if she's on vacation or something.

[Silvy]

Originally posted by amonkie
Definitely call... even if she isn't there, the smell could be a leaky pipe or something in the apartment if she's on vacation or something.

If the landlord won't budge, try the police, you have a good reason to be concerned!
*Keeps fingers crossed that all is well*

[raeanna74]

Definately give someone a call. Either Landlord or cops. I was reasponsible for checking on our upstairs neighbor for my landlord at one point. It was his mother. Found her in the morning after she'd fallen and gotten her foot stuck under a book case. She ended up in the hospital for a week after that. I'm glad I was there to help her. The things that caught my attention before I went up to check on her that day - quiet, and a smell. That's all you need to be concerned about someone. If you call an authority it's not like you are trying to snoop. Just being a good concerned neighbor.

[onetime2]

How about knocking on the door?

[Harshaw]

Originally posted by onetime2
How about knocking on the door?

Probably a good first step. Go over and borrow a cup of sugar.

[Jesus Pimp]

Thanks all for the advice. What does a rotting corpse smell like anyway?

[*Nikki*]

I think you would know it if you smelled it.

It sure doesn't smell like anything else.

[Schwan]

You mean you still haven`t checked? Well, If the smell hasn`t filled the floor yet, then I guess she`s not in. Still, chcek it.

[Chemical]

Hey, can you try the cinnanmen heart trick? Apparently the smell of them is the only way to combat the smell of the dead and rotting.

[guthmund]

Originally posted by Jesus Pimp
Thanks all for the advice. What does a rotting corpse smell like anyway?

The only comparable dead thing I've ever had the pleasure of smelling was a dead cow. It smelled like solidified sewage covered in 87 coats of "ass."

So....I hate to sound crass, but is she dead? I don't mean to sound like an idiot, but you can't start a thread like this and not finish it, my friend.

[irseg]

Uhmmm, rather than posting questions on a message board, why not talk to the landlord?

[sillygirl]

When I was in junior high school my best friend went to Kansas for the summer to visit her mom. While she was gone her dad died in the apartment. Had a stroke. No one saw him or heard him, but no one said anything until it was too late. He'd been dead three days before he was found. You should've talked to the landlord the minute you thought something was up. If you haven't already, do it now.

[2kids1headache]

Right on, sillygirl.

The landlord has some small legal responsibility to keep his or her tenants safe. Checking on the elderly definitely falls under that, and I'm sure that there's a legal way for the landlord to enter the apartment if they get no response at the door.

So have you talked to your landlord yet?!

[Rodney]

JP, go talk to the landlord right now.

[fhqwhgads]

Originally posted by Jesus Pimp
Thanks all for the advice. What does a rotting corpse smell like anyway?

There is nothing to compare it to. I've had to respond to a few of the "haven't seen him in awhile" cases, and when you open the door you instantly know if the person is in there or not. You can't prepare for it, and it hits you like a speeding truck.

Luckily after some "experience" you get more used to it....

[sillygirl]

Originally posted by fhqwhgads
Luckily after some "experience" you get more used to it....

Are you a cop? Paramedic? Just curious....


AND HEY!! JP!!!! What happened?

[JStrider]

yah... what happend man?

[Averett]

Originally posted by irseg
Uhmmm, rather than posting questions on a message board, why not talk to the landlord?

Seriously

You honestly had to go ask for help on this one? And then you come back and say "What does a rotting corpse smell like?"

Jesus man... strap on some balls and go see if the woman is okay!

[Bill O'Rights]

Well...it's been four days now...

[skier]

Maybe he forgot about this thread. He posted last night.

[Prince]

I'd like to know what happened, too. Perhaps someone should PM him or something? I dunno.

I mean, no offence to JP or anything, but I'd hate to be his neighbour if this is the extent of his giving a shit...

[VitaminH]

Our landlady is a very old woman who lives on the first floor of our three-flat, and she has a heart condition. Once we noticed we hadn't seen her in awhile right about rent time and we noticed the checks weren't getting cashed. We checked on her. She was ok, just hadn't gotten to the bank yet.

[Jesus Pimp]

Good news, she's alive. I haven't actually seen her but I see her lights on more often now when I come home from work.

[WarWagon]

Glad to hear it.

[Litespeed]

Glad to hear she's alive, but geesh that's an unpleasent scare.

[denim]

Is the nasty smell still there?

[Jesus Pimp]

The smells seems to be gone.

[fhqwhgads]

Originally posted by sillygirl
Are you a cop? Paramedic? Just curious....

Yeah, one of those guys....that's where my experience comes from...

*nervously twiddles thumbs*

[sillygirl]

Originally posted by fhqwhgads
Yeah, one of those guys....that's where my experience comes from...

*nervously twiddles thumbs*

[floydthebarber]

Here's a story along the same line as this thread.

He died 3 years ago; no one knew till last week.
NANAIMO -- Until he screwed up the courage the other day to break into his neighbour's place, Mike Gyger had wondered for years if the old man who lived in the dilapidated mobile home across the road had simply died without anyone noticing.
He hadn't seen Terry Ekonomides, a strapping, handsome 76-year-old Greek, since at least the spring of 2001, when his neighbour said he was heading off for another visit to family overseas.

But last Friday, after a Canada Customs and Revenue Agency official had called for the third time to wonder if Gyger knew anything about his neighbour, he decided to act.

With a friend along to give him courage, Gyger broke a window in the vestibule of the mobile home and gingerly walked through the derelict, rat feces-infested building. The ceilings had started to fall down, and the place reeked. It was, from what he could see, a wreck no one had lived in for years.

But in a back bedroom, out of sight of anyone who might have casually looked through the windows, he found Ekonomides' remains splayed out on the bed, an uncradled phone by his boots and his toupee on a nearby shelf.

"I guess I'd always had a gut feeling that something was wrong, that he was in there," Gyger said Thursday. "The problem was, he never told his neighbours when he went, and we'd learned to leave him alone. I wish now that we'd gone over sooner."

Coroner Dick Miller said Ekonomides died sometime in early 2001, likely of natural causes.

What no one can explain, it seems, is how a man can die unnoticed by everyone and be left in his home for more than three years. No one had raised alarms. Not his estranged first family -- including a son, two daughters and a wife he'd never divorced. Not his second "wife" -- Manhing Ekonomides -- who lives in Hong Kong and whose name is on the title for the property but who cannot be found. Not his elderly sister in Volos, Greece, where he annually visited to collect rent on a family estate.

LINK to the rest of the story. It's a weird one.

[jujueye]

Originally posted by sillygirl

Well, I understood the reply............