How Nat-Wu Will Be Found

Why does this happen on a regular basis?

Notices collected on the front door. Phone books lay neglected outside. Mail came seldom, if ever. The lawn was mowed every so often.

But it wasn't until Wednesday that anyone went inside the home on Mercer Drive and found the mummified body of a woman lying on her bedroom floor.

She had been dead about a year, police say, though they add it's difficult to tell when she died or how. Or who she is. It will take DNA for that.

If I were writing a serious post, I'd be wondering about a world we live in where somebody can be dead in their home for a year and even the neighbors don't wonder about her. As I'm not, I prefer to propse instead a service which will regularly check on you to make sure you're not dead. I'm thinking something like one of those med-alert devices (renamed the "dead alert" in this case) where you have to press it maybe every 3 or 4 days and if you don't, they go ahead and send someone to look in your windows and check to make sure you're not decomposing in your recliner or something. It's just an idea.