No One Cares
Have you ever wondered if society is going downhill? Ever thought that maybe the distance between people has gotten so far we no longer care?
Well, a recent article shows that this could be true. However, it also shows that this is not in any way new. Let me share the headline and a couple of sentences of an article from the Daily Record.
Woman sat dead in front of TV for 42 years.
Croatian police said she was last seen by neighbors in 1966, when she would have been 42 years old.
Her neighbors thought she had moved out of her flat in the capital, Zagreb.
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But she was found by police and bailiffs who had broken in to help the authorities establish who owned the flat.
A police spokesman said: “So far, we have no idea how it is possible that someone officially reported missing so long ago was not found before in the same apartment she used to live in.
[headline in bold, italics added for emphasis]
I think the real shocking part is not that she was dead for 42 years, but that she was reported missing!
Normally when someone I know or a family member doesn’t show up to an event, meeting, etc. I will call, but once no one answers the phone I tend to do things like check their home. But apparently, no one thought to open this tomb up to even check is she had fallen and broken a hip.
Oh well, chalk one up for indifferent world.
Wow. Just, wow.
“I think the real shocking part is not that she was dead for 42 years…”
I don’t find it that shocking either. Plenty of people have been dead for much longer.
@ Parallax – I agree.
@ Explodicle – Pure awesome, and correct. The world of science will never be amused by bodies that young.
What we need to find is a dead Roman sitting in a locked room with wall graffiti announcing a search for them on an outside wall. I think “missing person found after 2000 year search” would get some good press.
what a sad commentary on what we have become..
@ Robert – It is that. My only hope is that enough facing the brutality of this kind of indifference might actually create a change in people. Though I expect if I waited for that change I might end up the same way (although I do know my family and friends would come looking).