How long until I'd be found?

[Iwantoutrightnow]

From Sunday I will be free to ctb as my flatmate will have moved out. I didn't want her to be the one to find me as I know it would have affected her badly, not because we are good friends but because she already struggles emotionally and I really didn't want to add to that.

If I go back to the full suspension plan, or even partial if I could just get it right, and I died in my flat with all the windows shut how long before the smell of my decomposed body would reach the outside world? Once my flatmate has gone there will be no one to find me. The fact that nobody will find me is a sort of protective factor stopping me from ctb, not because I want to be stopped but because I don't want to be found, I don't want someone to have to find my dead body. But that is unpreventable so it's something I'm going to have to get over. I have googled it and it sort of suggests 3 weeks, does anyone have any thoughts on this?

It doesn't make any difference to the success/failure of any attempt but it might make me feel better to have an idea of how long I'll be there and how decomposed I'll be. I don't want to traumatise anyone but I guess that finding a dead body will never be nice for anyone no matter what state it is in

 

[Living sucks]

Do not make it so your neighbors will have to smell you to know something is wrong! That's horrible.

send a delayed email or text to someone .. even if they don't even live close by. They can call authorities in your location. Or send a letter .. for example..if you have a personal mailbox, put a letter in the mail on a Saturday night when you're planned to do this... if you fail you can retrieve the letter Sunday or even early Monday am before post picked it up. Or even a note TO THE post person saying call ems to go to your address?
i read a story where the entire house had to be gutted to stop the smell as it's truly toxic.

 

[Anonymoussn]

How long before your flatmate wonders why they havent heard from you and comes to check? Or maybe a family member or friend? Or maybe the landlord needs to get in touch with you?

I think that there are a lot of reasons why it might not be that it takes your neighbours to smell your decaying body before someone comes over.

As @Living sucks suggested, you could send a delayed email. Or if you're worried about doing that, you could go to a campsite, or get a hotel room. You wont ever need money again, so I'm sure you could probably afford one.

 

[Iwantoutrightnow]

Flatmate won't be an issue as she won't have a key after the weekend and she's already said that she won't be staying in contact after she's moved out. I haven't had any contact with friends/family for months so I don't see that as a possibility either.

The landlord would be the only one. I intend to put a chair in the hallway with a note on it saying that I'm dead in the lounge as a warning.

I can't get a campsite or a hotel room because of covid

 

[leapyourbar]

Somebody close wasn't found for just over 3 weeks in warm weather. The sight and smell was apparently horrific. We weren't allowed the coffin open at any point. The neighbours alerted the police due to the smell.

 

[dysfunctional]

Might be awhile till the smell gets bad enough. Doing it in a hotel could work.

 

[Anonymoussn]

Flatmate won't be an issue as she won't have a key after the weekend and she's already said that she won't be staying in contact after she's moved out. I haven't had any contact with friends/family for months so I don't see that as a possibility either.

The landlord would be the only one. I intend to put a chair in the hallway with a note on it saying that I'm dead in the lounge as a warning.

I can't get a campsite or a hotel room because of covid

I think judging from your post history you might be from the UK? I'm assuming the hotel situation will change on the 4th of July when the measures are eased further -which we will find out tomorrow either way. Not sure if that fits your timeline, but just something you may wish to consider.

 

[ThoughtsMinds]

It seems like bodies go bad pretty quickly so maybe 2 to 3 days.
I've thought about the same thing myself... also if you have a cat do they really eat or bite at your corpse or is that a myth?

 

[Iwantoutrightnow]

Just to clarify - I don't want to be rotting in my flat for ages, I don't want to create an awful sight and smell. If I can ctb on Sunday night and my landlord turns up on Monday morning that won't be nice for him but it would be better than being found months later.

It bothers me that there will be someone who finds me and it bothers me more that because I am so socially isolated that I might not be found for a long time thus making my dead body even more traumatising. I didn't want to traumatise my flatmate and I have solved that issue, but I can't change the fact that someone will have to find me and somehow I need to overcome the guilt I feel about this, that's why I asked.

I have considered the delayed email but I don't know who I would send it to

 

[Living sucks]

I have considered the delayed email but I don't know who I would send it to

Your family?. The landlord? A friend? Even if you haven't spoken to them in months.
Find an email address to your local authorities if there's one? Even to your flat mate just saying call the police!

or you can even phone your landlord that you need to discuss something with him on Monday and could he please stop by? If you fail, have something made up to discuss like you want to ask if a light fixture can be added or whatever ?? Or call him Monday am and tell him something came up and cxl and you'll get back to him?

mail an anonymous letter to the police just saying check welfare at your address.. nothing else and if u fail .. when they show up just play dumb.. say u have no idea about a letter or why it would be sent? Then say.. it might be a guy that you met but you didn't like him and he's being weird? But you can't be sure .. there are a bunch of things you can do

 

[doomscroller]

It seems like bodies go bad pretty quickly so maybe 2 to 3 days.
I've thought about the same thing myself... also if you have a cat do they really eat or bite at your corpse or is that a myth?

My upstairs neighbor died in his bed. The body was found just recently, over a year after his passing. There was no smell in the stairwell before the locksmith forced his door. Now the stairwell stinks. :/

I'm definitely NOT exiting in my apartment.