How in the world could you not notice a dead body?

[CowGirl]

This is just too baffling.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/02/08/death.sofa.ap/index.html

[Lazybones]

It is believed the occupant, who is also in his 70s, failed to report the death because he suffers from severe mental health problems.

[Thorin]

Still...  Eight years?  The body would have gone through all stages of decomposition, no?  And in those eight years no one every visited him?