Berichten zufolge starben in diesem Jahr allein in Japan fast 40.000 Menschen zu Hause

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyx6wwp5d5o

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  1. Almost 40,000 people died alone in their homes in Japan during the first half of 2024, a report by the country’s police shows.

    Of that number, nearly 4,000 people were discovered more than a month after they died, and 130 bodies went unmissed for a year before they were found, according to the National Police Agency.

    Japan currently has the world’s oldest population, according to the United Nations.

    The agency hopes its report will shed light on the country’s growing issue of vast numbers of its aging population who live, and die, alone.

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  2. This is the depressing reality of a country experiencing an ageing population and a catastrophic collapse in birth rates.

    On Reddit you so often get commenters celebrating the fall in births (*”Good! The world needs fewer humans, we’re a virus on this planet”* etc etc). Well, this is what that antinatalist dream looks like in practice. It’s a nightmare, an epidemic of loneliness, people dying with no children, no siblings, families are vanishing into oblivion.

    Japan is already at the stage where some schools are closing because there simply aren’t enough children to attend (schools closing down because there aren’t any kids and old people dying alone is sad and dystopian, it is nothing to celebrate).

  3. I mean… that’s probably going to be me in about 40 years. The isolation problem that Japan has been facing for decades seems to be expanding into the U.S.

  4. Its just a beginning. Coming up in europe and north america in like 20 years

  6. People feel like slaves to capitalism. If they can’t afford/have time to enjoy the important things in life, they tend to not want to procreate or have meaningful relationships.

  7. I know there are devices like Life Alert, but I wonder if in the future we will have something that detects you’ve died. Like heart sensor on a smartwatch, detecting both that it’s being worn but no pulse for X hours.

    An older man on my street, who lived alone, died one day. Nobody knew but I guess he worked random shifts at a local hardware store, and after a month of taking no shifts they got worried and yeah, he had died 5 weeks prior.

  9. I wish there was a way to create more communal living, but people are so annoying.

  11. Wonder what the number is in Italy. Other areas of the world where there is less rejuvenation of the population will be encountering this.

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    > Almost 40,000 people died alone in their homes in Japan during the first half of 2024, a report by the country's police shows.

    > Of that number, nearly 4,000 people were discovered more than a month after they died, and 130 bodies went unmissed for a year before they were found, according to the National Police Agency.

    > Taken from the first half of 2024, the National Police Agency data shows that a total of 37,227 people living alone were found dead at home, with those aged 65 and over accounting for more than 70%. While an estimated 40% of people who died alone at home were found within a day, the police report found that nearly 3,939 bodies were discovered more than a month after death, and 130 had laid unnoticed for at least a year before discovery.

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  13. No matter how many people are around you, even holding your hand, we’re all dying alone.

  16. I love Home Alone, a great movie. Not sure I’ll like the Japanese version.

  17. Yet Kevin McCallister lives. They should’ve watched his tutorial.

  18. What happens when you eliminate community in favor of capital.

  19. I’d much rather die alone in my home than in some facility.

  20. Poor Catherine O’Hara, Kevin’s Mom. Someone should help her process the guilt.

  22. If you have a partner, then either they or you is going to die first. If everybody was a married couple living to their twilight years with the person they love, this would be half of household deaths. There is literally no getting around this and it’s certainly not unique to Japan.

  25. I think the issue is that older people are dying alone AND 10% or so aren’t discovered for at least a month.

    *Of that number, nearly 4,000 people were discovered more than a month after they died, and 130 bodies went unmissed for a year before they were found, according to the National Police Agency*.

  26. Every living creature on earth dies alone. 28:06:42:12

  27. I’m seeing comments about how sad this is but my grandmother was one of these folks. She passed in her own home last year in Japan alone in her sleep.

    Up until her passing she lived independently. She was in her mid 90s still cooking for herself, going to seniors day care, daily exercises, and listening to the radio. She lived a long life and was active until the end of it.

    A lot of seniors in Japan still maintain a life even if they are alone. It may not be as fast paced or social as it once was but still enjoying life.

  28. Me in 40-50 years. Probably not in Japan tho ☹️.

  29. Volunteer euthanasia maybe? Let them die with dignity instead of alone.

  30. This trend will hit Europe in 10-20 years. The village is dead, we are all individuals now.

  32. A perpetual racist country that hates outsiders that has alienated their youth to move to the big cities and then in turn the youth don’t have children. What was going to happen?

  33. I’d be happy and perfectly fine with this outcome instead of a hospital bed. The thing sad about all this is that is sounds like 4130 people didn’t have good relationships with the people they cared about at the end of their life.

  34. This statistic sheds light on the growing issue of social isolation in Japan.

  35. if i die at home, my maid will discover my corpse. if i did not have a maid, no one would notice until my bank account runs out due to autopay. then a foreclosure notice will be filed. and then the cops will find my skeleton.

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