This is just too baffling.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/02/08/death.sofa.ap/index.html (http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/02/08/death.sofa.ap/index.html)
QuoteIt is believed the occupant, who is also in his 70s, failed to report the death because he suffers from severe mental health problems.
Still... Eight years? The body would have gone through all stages of decomposition, no? And in those eight years no one every visited him?