My girlfriend would be checking up on me if I fell out of communication for more than 24 hours. We rarely go longer than that without seeing or speaking to each other. If she weren’t around to check up on me (maybe because she had died at home), it would be up to my coworkers. It would be entirely out of character for me (or any of my colleagues) to simply not show up for work, and we’re a close-knit group of people, so someone would be checking up on me within a day or so. I’d like to think.
One of my favorite Onion headlinesever.
Scary thought. I am single, no family or significant other, few friends. Work wouldn’t care- they’d just code me as a no call, no show and fire me after 3 days, dead or not. No friends ever call or email. I’d be missed on FaceBook I guess, but enough to check up on me? Doubtful.
I own my house outright so no one to miss rent checks.
The dogs and cats would feast on my remains till there weren’t any more, and then I guess we’d all die. 
I remember I once got an uninterrupted 16 minutes in the bathroom. I think it was 1995.
The only way I’m getting more than a few minutes of rot time is if I die in my sleep without waking up my husband.
For those of you who live alone and don’t have regular contact with other people - can you establish some sort of daily quick “check in” with someone? I have this with two other people I know who live alone…we have a rule that after three days of no contact, authorities get called or (in the case of a neighbor) I use her house key, or vice versa, to check up.
Call, email or text, takes just seconds.
12 hours or so at most in general. If I died right after my husband left for work, he would find me when he got home.
Not long, in fact my wife sometimes wakes me up at night because she thinks I’m not breathing.
At home if my mother or brother are around maybe two days at most, they’d drop in after a whole day and a half passed with no contact from me. If they are out of the island it would likely wait until they returned.
If travelling, I’d probably have housekeeping find me next time they come to the room.
Being an introvert I’ve thought about this more times than you know! I’d say anywhere from 4 days to a little over a month. I don’t go out much and have few close friends so work would probably be the first to miss me (could be 4 days before they notice I’m not there due to our shifts.) Another big factor is that I’m still new at work so no one knows me well enough to say “This isn’t like Astraea. We better call and check.” They’d just assume I quit.
My landlord would come looking for the rent shortly after the 1st of the month but may give me a grace period before coming in. Scary to think about.
My daughter and son live with me. She goes back and forth between mine and her dad’s place. So we do at times go a few days without communicating, but my 18 year old son is here full time still. In the rare event that he could be gone for a few days, my boyfriend would most definitely come check on me if he had not heard from me in over 24 hours. We see or talk to each other daily.
If I died right after dropping the kid off at school, it would probably be 7 hrs before anyone expected me. When I didn’t come pick him up from school, my husband would be called and they would discover me when they got hom. So, I’m going with around 8 hrs.
I think people who live in houses have a way to let others worry about them: seasonal yard work. In winter, they’d see that the driveway hasn’t been shoveled, or that the car hasn’t been out of the garage. In summer, they’d wonder why the grass is so high. And in autumn the leaves haven’t been raked.
Pray that you won’t die in spring.
A long weekend at most. I work and wouldn’t show up. My manager, on me being a no show, would call, and not reaching me would probably call my mother(they know her personally). This scenario would only be if I hadn’t contacted my family in that long weekend, an unlikely event.
I won’t know til it happens. Ask me after. 
Probably wouldn’t take long with a wife and two kids around. If the kids were away and my wife were talking with friends, I could drop dead a couple of feet from her and she probably wouldn’t notice until the friends left. Unlike me, when someone has her attention they really have her attention.
I’m single, but my neighbors are cops and any time I’m home when I shouldn’t be, or I’m not home when I should, they call to check. If a call went unanswered for more than a couple hours, they’d check on me.
I do a daily welfare check call to my 81 year old stepfather, who lives alone. He probably wouldn’t notice if I didn’t call one day, but he’d worry after awhile.
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Within 24 hours under most circumstances. If I didn’t show up for work, someone would try to find me, and if I didn’t come home, the same.
I have a PCA so a few hours at most.
Not long. I’m not very patient, so if no one found me after two or three hours I’d give up and go find somebody myself.
Live alone, no SO, etc., so I have flat out told my co-workers, multiple times, that if I unexpectedly don’t show up that something is wrong and someone should look into it.
Of course, I have also repeatedly told them to read training manuals, follow established file naming conventions, and not to use screenshots from Google maps on official corporate correspondence, and I know how well that goes.
So, probably a couple of weeks, or until one of my projects falls into crisis mode, whichever comes first.
This reminds me of the time my brother’s ex (and then the rest of the family) couldn’t reach him when he was supposed to pick up the kids. She got the police to check things out. Turns out he just didn’t feel like answering the phone that day.
(I guess this could also in the “would you call your SO” thread.)