Death is part of life. It wouldn’t creep me out at all. If anything, it’s kind of nice ot think of old houses where generations have lived, been born, and died. I live in a pretty new house, though, and I’m pretty sure no one has ever died here.
Interesting topic-a friend’s wife was a nurse at a central London (UK) hospital. Parts of the hospital were .200 years old-p[atients and staff were always eeing starnge things, experiencing odd noises, etc. Shouldn’t hospitals be the place to look for ghosts?
I’m cool with it. My building is 70 years old, and many renters refused to move out. Ever. In fact, dead people tend to have the best units. The nice corner 2-bedroom units. A lot of people would jump at the chance to move into those.
My ex lives in that building. She used to live 2 doors down, in a building where the Boston Strangler killed someone. She was never really OK with that.
Ha! not only has someone died in the house I live in, a woman was beat to death by her husband here. Ok, that isn’t a good thing, but it makes our basement a little freaky when you realize someone was murdered there. Has never bothered me much though.
Brendon Small
Depends how. I lived on a street where a man had nailed his bedroom door shut and chainsawed his wife to death. I’d not want to live where something that horrid had happened. Regular natural deaths - not as disturbing.
To those that say it would bother them, could you explain why?
For the most part, I’d have no problem with it. However, I’d have to think long and hard about living in a place where a famous death occured (like the Ramsey house). It’s not because of any superstition or squeemishness. I’d just get sick of people asking me about it, I’d worry about resale value, and I really don’t want to have to deal with wierd lookie-loos driving by to see the place.
When I visit my parents I usually sleep in the bed my grandfather died in or the bedroom my brother died in. I’ll admit that it was a bit creepy the first couple of times, but now it’s rather comforting.
My house is 100+ years old and I’m positive many people have died here. We’ve had some unsettling activity on and off that we joke is perpetuated by our ghost(s).
I had a problem when we were living in this new subdivision called “Cuesta Verde”, mostly it was television interference.
But seriously, I have slept in at least two beds that people had died in previously. One was an antique bed with a huge headboard that almost covered the whole wall and the other was a normal bed that my aunt and uncle had inherited when my uncle’s uncle died in it.
I am pretty sure I have lived in houses where people have died. The houses here in uptown New Orleans are fairly old so I am sure the odds are good that someone somewhere along the lines died in a good number of them.
Plus, I have often thought of the people who lived here before Europeans arrived and where they might have lived and died. So, I think it’s pretty unlikely that you’d find any place (inhabited) where someone didn’t die nearby or on that place.
So, no, it doesn’t bother me.
My Mother died in my house when I was 4, I lived there until I was 18 and my parents still live there. I don’t even think she was the first person to die there.
My grandfather died in the same farmhouse he was born in. My 96 year old grandmother still lives there. According to my mother , the house is so old that they will probably have to tear it town when she dies.
ETA: the site of a violent death would probably make me pause, though. It wouldn’t make me walk away from an opportunity, but if it were an apartment building with, say 10 identical units open at the same time, I might ask after those other units.
Why ever not?
It isn’t like death is catching.
Ok, that might be too much.
Sure. My father died one Friday morning in bed; that night I slept in his bed (had to clear out the discarded vials and stuff from the paramedics and also changed the sheets. I did it because I thought it would be a bit much for my Mom to sleep there, so she took the guest room and I slept in Mom and Dad’s bed one last time.
I also lived in a house where a murder had taken place in the master bedroom. As long as there’s no smells or anything, I’m okay with it.
I still live in the house where I lived with my late husband. I have gotten rid of our bed, and I’m remarried. It doesn’t feel weird, but I guess it might look weird to others…
The house where my perents were living when I was born was certainly old enough to have had someone die in it before we took possession and we stayed ayt my grandmother’s house for her funeral. I never actually heard that anyone had died in my folks’ house, however. Our next couple of houses were built in the 50s (as is the house where I now live) and I doubt anyone died in them. Similarly, the apartments where I lived were either rather new or so nondescript I would not have known.
OTOH, when I was in college, a guy had hanged himself in his room around seventeen years earlier and the school installed a shower at that point rather than have anyone else use the room for sleeping. The four shower stalls (three doors down on the far side of the hall), were a lot closer than the larger showers at the other end of the dorm, so I used them. I think I found it a bit creepy late one stormy night, but I figured that if there had been no ghost in seventeen years, he was unlikely to come after me, so I continued to use it for the rest of the year.
ETA: My FIL died at home and my MIL still lives there; we stay there when we visit. (He was a cool guy and pretty laid back, so I doubt that he is much interested in haunting anyone.)
When we were shopping in San Francisco for a house about a year ago, many houses were advertised with “No death on property”. Not sure why, though I was told by a co-worker that many Chinese will not live in a place where there was a death, and deaths were required to be disclosed. Not sure of the veracity of that statment.
I think you are required to disclose deaths everywhere. Not necessarily advertise it, but certainly disclose it.
A two hundred year old house where any number of persons died of disease or natural causes in the days before vaccinations and hospitals? How could one even be sure of knowing?
Even disclosing the died-in-her-sleep 96 year old lady in the new condominium seems a bit odd, to me. (Unless you are talking about a law that is specific to San Francisco and a few similar locations.) My Dad died in the hospital, but he could easily have died at home and I cannot recall the topic even arising when my (obviously widowed) mother was selling her house.
I did some Googling and found this article, which says:
Then there’s this page, also dealing with California, which notes:
And here is one from Austin, Texas:
I must say, this is all rather new to me. It never occurred to me that such disclosures might be required.
As long as I’m not the one that died, sure. 
The place I live now has been here 90 years. I am sure someone has died here in that time. If they don’t mess with the electric or gas bill, and let me get what sleep I can squeeze in, they can stay.