Man lay dead in bed for two years
 

Here's an interesting one, similar to the sad couch lady. A guy up in Canada died in bed and just lay there for two years before he was discovered. He had a pension payment automatically deposited in his bank account, and his bills were also paid automatically from the same account. His condo neighbors wondered where he was, but everyone thought he must be OK, because he was paying his bills.

The only one who should have noticed was the post office, because he wasn't collecting his mail, but they didn't tell anyone.

Dead for two years

That's nothin'...when I was married my wife was dead in bed for 5 years...

When I don't hear from slang for more than two weeks in a row, I have someone check, just to be sure this hasn't happened.

a friend of mine who was an OTR driver stayed in a parking lot for a week before the cops came around to tell him he had to move his rig. unfortunately, he had died in his sleep the first night.

What a sad commentary on our modern society. The two years laying dead is nothing alongside the lonely years he must have spent before he finally met his end. Poor man!

Not everybody is a victim you know.

He may have been a right bastard.

All the more reason to pity him. What a waste to spend your life so that people hate you and you die alone and unnoticed!

Well damn girl...

Can't you at least reserve a little pity the people who are victims of circumstance or something?

Pity doesn't come in premeasured, limited quantities. If it did, I would have never gotten laid.

I suppose I'd use the word "compassion" over pity. I try to understand how people might act as they do because in some way they suffer - be it from some emotion like anger or fear or greed or hate, etc. These are all unpleasant emotions and cause the person who experiences them to suffer. I certainly have compassion for victims of random fate as well. Many people seem to think that having compassion for someone means giving them some sort of "get out of jail free card." Far from it. We are still responsible for our actions despite whatever suffering we may have endured. Many people lead tragic lives, yet don't turn into murderers or terrorists, for example. Its all up to each of us and how we view the world and how we come to terms with what happens to us. We are ALL human, and its important to remember this. Awful actions are committed by human beings - not devils. I think it important that we cognize this, in order to help us see how its possible to turn into "devils" ourselves and avoid that path.

ROFLMAO! Please call the doctor I cannot breathe.
ahem. I mean, I am very sorry to hear that.

Mine was a tiger in bed. But it wasn't our bed. :eyebrow:

And I assume yuu weren't the guy?

I knew there was a reason I resist e-bills with automatic payment. At least the traditional way, you know your creditors will care if you're dead or alive.

Sometimes I was. ;)