Life Goes On... For Some

[vakkotaur]

Sometime yesterday (Monday, March 27 2017) a cleaner called the neighbor, Dan Sweet, and got no answer and no return call within the usual time. Another call was made to have someone check on the fellow. He was found, sitting in his chair, dead. There were, I am told, no signs of any flailing or anything. He just stopped.

He was in poor health for years. Severely overweight (he weighed at least twice what I do), if not a chain smoker close enough (after each time I was in his place I had to do laundry and take a shower to avoid a smoke-induced headache), and drank quite a bit. I knew he drank, and more than a drink or two a day, but evidently it was around a quart of the hard stuff daily. Yikes!

jmaynard was about to go back to work after lunch and saw a car almost blocking the driveway and other vehicles about and then found out most of what was said above and relayed that to me before leaving - not bothering with asking anyone to move that car. I walked to the nearby Shell station as another neighbor works there, but we just missed each other. After the gal then taking care of the station was finished with a phone call and a few customers, I asked if she knew.. the puzzled look said, "No." and I explained. And then the gal there made a phone call to her boss (my other neighbor) and relayed the news of the day. On my walk to Shell, a hearse drove by. On my walk back from Shell a Sheriff's car drove by. When I got home, there was the hearse, a squad car, two sheriff's cars, and a bunch of other vehicles.

Now I wonder what will happen to/with the house. Dan had been getting the place in order enough for his mother to move in - and she did for a while, but had to move out again as she couldn't deal with Dan all the time. I understand if she would rather not move in, but I hope she does as that would mean a good neighbor. I also wonder what will happen to Dan's dog - a dog I felt sorry for as it needed to run or at least walk a long time and never got the chance.

Between that news and the weather finally not being rainy and damp and miserable, I went for a walk... about an hour overall. More than I'd been expecting, but it won't hurt anything. And I found a chisel lying in the street and removed the tire hazard from the thoroughfare.

Comments

[malterre.livejournal.com]

So sorry to hear about the neighbor and I hope you find out the fate of the dog.

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

I suspect I will not, unless his mother does move in and keeps the dog or the subject comes up.

One thing I do not expect to miss is Dan's yelling at the dog to "Go potty!" or such... which I heard when I was 'perched on the bowl' and it did NOT make things any easier, to put it mildly.

[nefaria.livejournal.com]

There's a good chance that something resembling this will happen to me one day. Introverts who live alone know what will probably happen if we have a sudden death.

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

So very sorry to hear of the sad news ..... *offers feathery hugs*

[thecanuckguy.livejournal.com]

This happened to my wife recently. (Not the "just stopped while sitting in a chair" part THANK GOD, but a similar situation.) Her boss just suddenly died recently. She (boss) runs a consulting business that rents out food demo workers (like my wife) to stores to demonstrate food to drive sales. She was talking to her boss the day before re: her next assignment, next day a co-worker phoned her to say that she went over to her house to drop off paperwork only to find the paramedics there and the boss already gone. Since it was a one-woman company basically my wife (and I) was genuinely concerned about her future employment status, but her son - who was listed on the company webpage but she hadn't heard about at all during her years of employment kindly answered her questions and has been contacting her re: future work now.