This is the second or third case I've read about similar to this where someone died in their house or room and their body wasn't discovered for 6 months to 2 or 3 years or more. IN this case I think the daughter had a breakdown which often happens when single people care for a dying loved one. And one of the worst things to deal with is your mother or father slowly regress from senile dementia or alzheimers. This can make a single person trying to do this alone temporarily or permanently crazy or at least incapable likely of ever being in a healthy relationship with a significant other ever again. So, this is actually a lesson to the world of what can happen if you try to care for a relative dying slowly of senile dementia or alzheimers by yourself.

Even putting my mother in a rest home for senile dementia patients likely saved my life along with my wife and kids. You have to get to the pragmatic point of "Life is for the Living" and your dying relative is moving towards the land of the dead. This is necessary so you can mentally and physically survive when they cannot.

This was the hardest thing I had to do in my life to let my wife and son put my mother in a rest home. I would have chosen ANY other outcome than this. But, you have to prioritize your wife and kids over your parent when this happens or you are just a fool unfortunately. This is reality even if you want to run away from it. You can't. They won't survive this. You might. Remember this.

Woman left mom dead to 'mummify' in bed

Published October 14, 2015

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Melissa Peacock’s 83-year-old mother Noreen was found dead in her bed at the Kellyville, Sydney home she shared with her daughter in October 2013. (News.com.au)

When her 83-year-old mother died, Melissa Peacock shut the bedroom door, failed to inform anyone and carried on with her life. She used air fresheners to disguise the odours which leeched out from the room, told police her mother was sleeping and allegedly spent the dead woman’s money living in the lap of luxury in high class hotels.
An inquest which opened today at Glebe Coroner’s Court in Sydney will look into the circumstances surrounding the death of Noreen Peacock whose body was discovered in 2013 at the home she shared with her daughter in Kellyville, in Sydney’s Hills district. The exact date of her death is not known.
What is known, counsel assisting the coroner Ian Bourke SC said, is that on or around Mother’s Day on May 2012, Noreen and her three daughters Melissa, Debra Crozier and Jaslyne Haywood gathered together.
“Both (Debra and Jaslyne) observed Noreen appeared to be well and Melissa, as always, appeared to be taking very good care of her,” Mr Bourke said.
At this time, the inquest heard, their mother was suffering from dementia and the two eldest daughters floated the idea of putting her in a nursing home but Melissa, who worked as a hospital receptionist and was her mother’s primary carer, refused.
“Her life revolved around living and caring for her mother and working.”
When in late 2012 her mother’s condition significantly deteriorated, Mr Bourke said Melissa became depressed and “unable to cope”, drinking substantial quantities of sparkling wine in order to “obliterate” what she had to think about.
“Unfortunately and despite the pressure ... Melissa was under she did not ask for help,” he said.
In July 2013, Melissa became ill with shingles and it was around this time, she later told police, that she had gone up to her mother’s bedroom and found her dead.
“She shut the door to the bedroom and told no one about the death and carried on like her mother was still alive,” Mr Bourke said.
The inquest, which will investigate the manner and time of Noreen’s death, heard that when her body was discovered by real estate agents on 18 October 2013 it was “largely mummified”. At the time, police said a post-mortem examination confirmed she could have been dead for up to six months and there were indications her mother died of hypothermia, reports the Daily Telegraph.
Investigators said Melissa had been missing for several days following the discovery of her mother’s remains. However, it was revealed in court that she had been staying in expensive hotels, such as Sydney’s Four Seasons, the Hilton, the Marriott and the Shangri-La, before being arrested at a hotel in harbour side suburb of The Rocks.
She was charged with one fraud offence of operating an account without authority, as well as failing to report her mother’s death.
No conviction was recorded and she was dealt with under the Mental Health Act. The inquest continues.
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