[MattSavinar]

Guy in Japan died in his apartment. Body was found at the coffe table 20 years later.

http://news1.iwon.com/odd/article/id/97 ... uters.html

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')OKYO (Reuters) - The pajama-clad skeleton of a Japanese man has been found in a vacant apartment building -- 20 years after his lonely death.

The skeleton was discovered lying atop musty "futon" bedding earlier this month when workers getting ready to raze the derelict building entered the second floor unit where the man had lived, domestic media reports said on Thursday.

A newspaper dated February 20, 1984, was on the kitchen table.

Police believe the man, an employee of the construction firm that built the apartments in 1973, moved in after the building was vacated when the firm managing it went bankrupt, the reports said.

The man, then 57 and divorced with children, suddenly stopped coming in to work two decades ago but none of his relatives ever asked police to search for him.

"I had no idea that the apartment even existed," the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper quoted a 65-year-old neighbor as saying.

"After I heard the news, I thought 'Oh, it's here.' It's as if time had stopped in this one place."

[OilBurner]

Sorry Matt, I don't know if it's because I haven't had my daily caffine hit yet, but I'm struggling to see how that is related?

Good story though!!

[notacornucopian]

You know, aliens from space land on the planet and find a dead man with contemporary relics from his age strewn about ( while the rest of the planet has been razed ).

[OilBurner]

Aaaah *clink* (sound of penny dropping!)

[Tanada]

How many of us could end up this way?

[Plantagenet]

Heres an alternative way to end up. I think its better then moldering away in an abandoned apartment...

pensioner-falls-to-his-death-in-parasailing-accident-during-dream-holiday-in-Thailand

Of course the best way to go would be the way Nelson Rockefeller did it----dying in the saddle.

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As the joke goes...Nelson thought he was coming but actually he was going.

Cheers!