Dying Alone in NYC

[Matty]

Outstanding nonfiction piece in the NYT. It's not quite as depressing as you'd expect - highly recommended:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/nyregion/dying-alone-in-new-york-city.html

 

[IAG]

It's not depressing if you are a man in your 30s living with a wife and son.

Quite a few George Bells here at GL...and maybe a Georgina Bell.

 

[FairWarning]

I bet George had a $200 blender somewhere in there.

 

[IAG]

I bet George had a $200 blender somewhere in there.

I bet it was a $30 Oster. That's why he had to get all that takeout Chinese and pizza.

For some reason that name reminds me of the Brady Bunch when Jan made up the boyfriend George Glass.

 

[IAG]

We should give George Bell a smilie. Let him be immortalized in some small way.

 

[Matty]

RIP Big George

 

[Archie]

Great read

Great reporting and data collection

Someone tell a skatch reporter to do this with plommer in 20 years

 

[Matty]

I remember my kitchen and oven looking close to that of George, somewhere around early 2010.

Big George would be mortified to learn that this made the NYT:

Luckily for us, he's dead.

 

[reno cool]

This forum is worse than tv. More death than in real life.
Btw all the crying and funeral procedures scare me more than death itself. Dying alone seems better than near a bunch of crying people.

 

[bacon]

Dude loved his mayo

I hate mayo

makes me think of cum

 

[Blitty]

Reminds me of a few midwest/canadian type posters..

 

[Tron]

I thought this was going to be a Casperwaits related thread.

 

[IAG]

RIP Big George

. Yes! We need this smilie. My brother just called...he subscribes to the NYT, and had read this story also. i told him to make sure that doesn't happen to me!

 

[Mudcat]

Yap, people die - they sure do.

Really big thing in Tokyo apparently, people dying alone and being found because of the smell.

Quasi-related, I read an article citing stats about a growing number of Japanese people who are completely disinterested in sex. It was awhile ago so I don't remember the exact numbers - and I don't even remember how reliable an article it seemed - but it was significant. Like a percentage in the 30's? Is that possible?

Not people who are looking for relationships and failing - talkin' people in their prime years - 20's, 30's, 40's - completely disinterested.

 

[bacon]

Roguie will die alone. Farm animals don't count.

 

[FairWarning]

People are scared to leave their apts in NYC - and who could blame them.

 

[Mudcat]

My ex, after we broke up, used to have a deal with a girlfriend to make daily contact and if it didn't happen, they would know something was wrong. I imagine that is still going on.

I once asked Jenny if she would like us to have a formal thing like that - with all her health travails - since our natural contact ebbs and flows - but she just laughed it off.


Interesting thing with me not long ago. One day I was late for work and didn't call in right away - car trubbles ----> Harmony immediately started looking for me. Like she had the boss call me and whatnot. That same morning.

I guess I am just that freakin' reliable (predictable?) that any variation seemed actionable. She was worried.

I was gratified and told Harmony that was very nice. Dying is always a possibility and I live alone at the moment and I would prefer not to stink the joint out.

 

[Matty]