updated 11:30 a.m. EDT, Fri May 16, 2008
Woman's dead body lies in flat for 35 years


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 under the Communist Government.
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.

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I read this story earlier today. How sad that a person could be dead for 35 years and no one missed her. I have wondered if anyone would miss me if I were gone, but certainly I would be noticed if I just disappeared.

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If who disappeared?

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Aw, you'd miss another gay-rights liberal around here to mess with.

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Dang...that's sad to say the least.

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"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming -- WOW-- What a Ride!"

hmmm.
yea your probably right. I'll just have to come to north Cal to see ya some day.

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Woman Found Dead In Bed 35 years Later!!

From what my one friend tells me, his wife has been "dead in bed" for close to 20 years...


I'm sorry. It's the smart-### in me.

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I thought you said you weren't liberal

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I know that some view me as a crazy California liberal.

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The I.R.S. would miss you.At tax time.