When I first heard the news about the Wells Fargo employee who died at her desk and went unnoticed for days, I had the same question as everyone else: How could this happen? Given its chilling details, the story stayed with me for a few days. During that time, I recalled another such incident from the late 1990s wherein a woman’s body was dumped in a ditch along the Washington, DC Beltway and went unnoticed for weeks, even though thousands of drivers passed by every day. So, I began to wonder: How often does this happen? Quite frequently, as it turns out.
This blog aims to chronicle these incidents of death gone unnoticed, acknowledge the human lives lost, and remind us to check in on our loved ones — and maybe our casual acquaintances too. Is there a bit of morbid fascination here? Yes, I admit it. (Again, how could this happen?) Clearly, these stories are enthralling and salacious. At the same time, there’s also an undeniable memento mori aspect to these stories that deserves our attention. In the words of Charles Bukowski, “We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
Perhaps this blog can
change that ever so slightly.
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