how long will our corpses rot alone, b4 we're discovered?

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It's quite worrying that you don't have cell service where you live, AB; even that alone could mean the difference between life or death.

Is there not anything that can be done to bring service to the area?

not enough population to support a service out here. even Verizon is tough out here, so even if I sprang for their cheapest plan [$100 per month] it wouldn't do much good. there is a visible cell phone antenna tower but it conspicuously is pointed up north where most of the people live. i'll think of something.

How about internet access directly to emergency services? If there's a hope that in a crisis at home you could physically get yourself to your computer and then access a bookmark right into an emergency website with 24 hour monitoring -- I don't know if such a thing exists but there must be something like that these days.

a good point, since I spend most of my time on my @$$ in front of a puter, there's a good chance that i'd be In just the right place to send out an SOS. other aspies here need to know this stuff also!

You folks in your Aspie group should give each other basic contact info.

You're a charming guy, and a guy who can fix people's things. How far away is your nearest neighbor?

I swear....you won't lose your Aspie card should you happen to find a girl at the General Store or something. Hopefully a pretty Young Thang who likes to take care of people. You'd be surprised how many young girls like to take care of people.

Or you could be some lonely kid's Uncle Bill. That happens, too. Eccentric middle-aged guy meets lonely kid, sends him/her on the right path.

There is an island some distance from mainland New Zealand where there was no telephone service at all until relatively recently. They were the last part of New Zealand to get a dial up telephone service in the 1980s. For many years they relied on pigeons to carry urgent messages to the mainland!

Aw, yay for pigeons! I'm a bird freak and I seriously adore pigeons -- they have been of incredible service to humans for thousands of years of civilization.

Auntblabby - you need a pigeon dovecote and some homers!

I don't know and I don't care because I'll be dead, so it won't make one iota of difference to me.

AB, if you want to lodge information via a PM to me about your location and a general emergency plan, I can let the modteam know that I have it on file (or share it with them if you are ok with that). One or the other of us would soon notice if you stopped posting here, and given your isolation perhaps this would make you feel safer.

thank you I will reply in more detail via PM, ok?

i concur with that comment.
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in my case it would take about 2 weeks. my girlfriend who i never see much but rings me up every day multiple times, would become worried and send someone to check on me and they would simply knock on my door and then report to her that although my car was there, i was not at home.
after another week, she and my other friend would also be very worried by now, someone would again come to see if i was there, but this time, they would notice many flies crawling on the inside of my windows.
that would be the cue to bust down the door.

I'm the same -- it's of very little concern to me that I might "die alone" undiscovered.

Put it this way -- someone threatening me with that scenario is STILL not enough for me to suddenly want to drag a bunch of friendships and relationships into my life just so I won't "die alone."

Sometime I think it's just another way of people attempting to shame someone for just being happy alone.

Is this something we're actually supposed to care about? Wouldn't we be dead and gone so it wouldn't really matter? I'd be more concerned about falling down and getting injured and nobody knowing about it. That sounds a lot scarier to me.

of course that is a big part of it, the "help! I've fallen down and can't get up!" all alone for miles around with nobody to help me scenario

that happened to me in 2012, I was in a severe accident and there was nobody around to help me.