Woman's dead body lies in flat for 35 years. SMH.

[Rman]

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) -- Governments have changed. War erupted and ended. Neighbors had children, and then grandchildren. But Hedviga Golik never left her tiny apartment in Croatia's capital -- until her mummified body was carried out this week, 35 years after she died.

Police said Friday that no one ever reported Golik missing and no one has come to claim her body.

Residents of her loft building in downtown Zagreb had broken into Golik's flat after deciding that the apartment should belong to them, and not to her. Startled by the remains in bed, they called police.

Forensics experts said Golik likely died in 1973, about the time a neighbor last saw her. Expert Davor Strinovic said she seemed to have died of natural causes, but "it's almost impossible to say for certain" after so much time.

Some of Golik's neighbors claimed she had talked about going abroad.

Experts said her windows had been open, likely diminishing the smell. It remained unclear who -- if anyone -- was paying her bills and who exactly owned the apartment. In the 1970s, when Golik died, apartments were state-owned.

Neighbors now argue the apartment should be divided among the remaining tenants.

The discovery of Golik's body on Tuesday prompted media debates on how it is possible for a woman to die so long ago without anyone noticing. One local journalist said it showed people were becoming more alienated.

"My dear neighbors! Please keep on being curious and a bit tiresome, as you have been so far," Merita Arslani wrote in the Jutarnji list daily

direct link: http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/05/16/croatia.body.ap/index.html

Wow. 

[xnikki118x]

Incredible. So sad.

[Mupepe]

wow.  that'd suck if no one gave a shit about my dead ass for 35 years.  wow.

[Brehvolution]

Residents of her loft building in downtown Zagreb had broken into Golik's flat after deciding that the apartment should belong to them, and not to her.

?

[Mupepe]

yeah, i was talking to a friend on the phone and telling her, that's like me deciding my neighbor shouldn't have his apartment.  what the fuck

[Joe Molotov]

This whole story is crazy.

Some of Golik's neighbors claimed she had talked about going abroad.

35 YEARS AGO!?!

[Tauntaun]

That's crazy.. 

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this would make a badass metal song/video. 

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[FlameOfCallandor]

LOL Sate owned apartments. Where no one cares if you die.

[bork]

Residents of her loft building in downtown Zagreb had broken into Golik's flat after deciding that the apartment should belong to them, and not to her.

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Maybe they thought she was never home and wanted to start using the apartment for other people or something.

[CrystalGemini]

Maybe they thought she was a zombie.   

[Great Rumbler]

This is absolutely incomprehensible to me. Didn't SOMEONE in those 35 years think to check on this woman?

"Well, she did say that was going abroad. So we better just stay in our apartments and wait until we hear from. Nope, no reason at all to go knock her door or go inside to make sure the apartment's being taken care of."

Really?

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

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