Soldato
This is more of a "I need to get this off my chest" type of thing. Please feel free to ignore or delete if not appropriate.
Well yesterday didn't quite work out as expected. I was visiting my partner and we get a knock on the door. It was the lady from downstairs and a another man who lives in a different flat there. They say they have not seen the guy who lives opposite my partner for a few days and he's usually about. His cars are outside, he has 2 of them. He has lived there for around 15 years and is friendly, if a slightly odd sort of chap. We knock on his door, there is no answer. I try the door handle. The door is unlocked. I step inside the darkened hallway and there is a slightly musty smell in the air. It is very quiet and darkened within. I walk down the short hallway. Then I see him. To my left, there in an open doorway. He is lying on his back on the floor, eyes closed, mouth open. White as a sheet and cold to the touch.
We both leave and I call 999 and ask for an ambulance. They kind of expect me to perform some sort of CPR but they poor chap has been dead for a couple of days. I'm not going to be doing that. A little while later, an ambulance and police car arrive. We talked to the police about it for a little while and then later a black van arrives and takes the body away.
A sobering evening and it has made me think about my own health. He isn't much older than I and has lived a more unhealthy lifestyle but I am feeling very mortal right now and carefully thinking about the future and how I live life from now.
Anyone else had a similar experience?
Well yesterday didn't quite work out as expected. I was visiting my partner and we get a knock on the door. It was the lady from downstairs and a another man who lives in a different flat there. They say they have not seen the guy who lives opposite my partner for a few days and he's usually about. His cars are outside, he has 2 of them. He has lived there for around 15 years and is friendly, if a slightly odd sort of chap. We knock on his door, there is no answer. I try the door handle. The door is unlocked. I step inside the darkened hallway and there is a slightly musty smell in the air. It is very quiet and darkened within. I walk down the short hallway. Then I see him. To my left, there in an open doorway. He is lying on his back on the floor, eyes closed, mouth open. White as a sheet and cold to the touch.
We both leave and I call 999 and ask for an ambulance. They kind of expect me to perform some sort of CPR but they poor chap has been dead for a couple of days. I'm not going to be doing that. A little while later, an ambulance and police car arrive. We talked to the police about it for a little while and then later a black van arrives and takes the body away.
A sobering evening and it has made me think about my own health. He isn't much older than I and has lived a more unhealthy lifestyle but I am feeling very mortal right now and carefully thinking about the future and how I live life from now.
Anyone else had a similar experience?