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Dying alone at home is very common in Japan until the neighbour reported to the police due to strong smell.

In Japan there are many who lived alone, after they retire they go to a old age home, and may die there.  But those who stayed by themselves and died may be need to get the authorities to extract their bodies, and it may be that they are reported by their neighbours cos there is a foul smell emanating from that house.....