re: Hoarder, 80, was eaten by her rottweiler after dying in filthy, junk-filled house

The family dog also died. There are a lot of pictures of the hoard at this site. LINK

She hadn't been alone that long, but had signed herself out of the hospital after her sister was admitted and kept.

The cousin who found her had begged her to get her affairs in order a year or two earlier. Instead the cousin got to probate the estate, dig through the filth for money tossed about, and to find the papers that were important and then to find a place where the alive sister go live out her life after the hospital discharged her.

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Why is her being a hoarder relevant to the story?

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Hoarders typically isolate themselves from social interactions. They can be dead for months or even years before someone finds them.

Marie Provost

Nick Lowe sang about a situation like this...

You'll have a new appreciation for the grunts at Servpro tasked with the cleanup

I don’t understand the hoarding mentality. Truly disgusting people.

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In this same sphere of topics, I would have been very interested to see Layne Staley’s corpse when discovered.

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I seem to remember reading about how Layne Staley looked like a bag of guts after he'd sat dead on that couch for 2 weeks.

The smell of that kitchen would have been beyond bad

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At least the dog knew how to survive.

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Country dog will survive

to paraphrase Hank Jr.

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How was the skelly still sitting upright in the lawn chair? Especially after being eaten by the dog?

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It was a gentle Rottweiler, not some trashy wild pit

Same thing happened to a guy who lived down the street from my parents..

Hoarder who died in his house, dog started eating him.. His neighbor hadn't seen him in a while, and could smell his decaying body outside, called police and that's how they found him.