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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodokushi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodokushi is the Japanese name for this phenomena. There were several articles about it a

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodokushi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodokushi is the Japanese name for this phenomena. There were several articles about it a few months back, like: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/roads/2015/06/kodokushi_in_aging_japan_thousands_die_alone_and_unnoticed_every_year_their.html http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/roads/2015/0... http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/in-japan-lonely-deaths-in-societys-margins/ http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/in-japan-lone... http://qz.com/380685/photos-cleaning-up-after-japans-lonely-deaths/ http://qz.com/380685/photos-cleaning-up-after-japans-lonely-... They say you mentally breakup with your spouse/partner some time before before actually do so. From what little I can glean here, the same can (not always, just can) hold true for dying alone.

prophet_ 11y ago
“The majority of lonely deaths are people who are kind of messy,” The need for instant gratification is a constant for those affected by major depression. This may come across as "messy" when in reality severely depressed people would skip anything that does not directly improve their mood. As despair takes over and one cannot find light at the end of the tunnel, the search for this light or simply giving up becomes the main thing whereas everything else becomes irrelevant. I'm no psychologist but could not help noticing this kind of behaviour over the years in many cases of depression, suicides, etc.