A couple of minutes, when the wife comes out of the bathroom.
I’m at work right now, so if I dropped dead right here, I’d say the longest I could be undiscovered would be about 4 hours when my officemate pops his head in to say goodbye for the day. Shortest time could be about 2 seconds if he heard a thud or something and got up to investigate.
If I was at home, it depends on what day of the week it is, but I think I could go missing for at least 4 days before anyone raised any sort of alarm. Even then, it might be another couple of days while my boss/coworkers messaged me a number of times before they finally decide to drive over to my house and bang on the door/call the cops/whathaveyou.
Might be 2 or 3 weeks before I was found.
Instantly. Surrounded by the fam almost all the time.
I’m sitting at my desk at work, so I can’t imagine it would take long.
Outside of work, I have a family, so it still wouldn’t take long. About the longest possible window would be overnight, if I died late at night, and my wife had already gone to bed.
Minutes if at work, maybe 72 hours if at home (another lone ranger here), or a bit longer if I happened to pop my clogs on a Friday night.
In all cases it would most likely be my employer who noticed first, but I can work out of any of three widely scattered offices, so it might take a while for them to realize I wasn’t at any of them.
Right now? As soon as the guy in the cube across from me turns around and notices that I’m slumped over in a very strange way.
If I’d died suddenly at the time of the OP (4:33am here on the East Coast), probably about an hour and a half until my wife woke up and wondered why I wasn’t already up and moving.
Can’t think of a time when my death wouldn’t be noticed within a few hours at most.
At first I thought 10 minutes. The co-worker down the hall would eventually wander over to tell me something. But then I thought, he might just yell that he’s leaving, and if he didn’t hear anything back from me, would just assume I left already.
But there’s a big event at the office tonight, and people will start arriving around 5ish, so I suppose someone would find me in about 3.5 hours or so.
I have four small children, ages 4-9, that are home for summer break.
I’ll say 30 seconds. Maaaaybe one minute.
Right now? Well, I’m meeting friends in a few hours and I hope they would become concerned if I didn’t show and didn’t respond to calls or texts, but … if they didn’t, or if I died tomorrow instead of right now, it could be quite a while before anyone noticed. (My parents, probably, next time they called and left a message and didn’t get a reply, but they live in another state.)
Great. Now I’m all freaked out.
I’ve decided that, at my age, the considerate thing for me to do is to sleep in a body bag.
There’s currently 6 other people in the room with me. If anyone talks to me and I don’t answer, that’s pretty much it. So . . . 10 minutes?
It depends on how long it takes my co-pilot to wake up from his nap.
For me it would be less than twenty four hours. I have to work tomorrow., and my workplace knows the number or my mother. When I don’t show up for work they’d start calling around.
It could be awhile. I live alone, and I work in K-12, so I’m off work for the summer. My parents live 20 minutes away but they wouldn’t start getting concerned until it had been over a week without any contact.
During the school year, failing to show up for work and not giving any notice ahead of time would trigger concern a lot faster.
As soon as Mum’s finished icing the cake, give her a few minutes.
If I was in my own house, potentially days. Depends how angsty Mum and my ex/daughter’s mum get about me not answering texts during the week.
Well, I’m at work right now. I am in a back cubicle, though, so if no co-workers come to speak to me, maybe no one would notice before 5:00. But there’s cleaning staff that come around and empty garbage cans, so they’d find me.
Right this very second? I’m at work and within 10 minutes the person I walk to the train with will be by to pick me up for the walk to the train.
Shouldn’t you be focusing on flying the plane instead of surfing the dope?
Right now, I’m at work so it would be pretty quick. But if it happened at home, It could be weeks. That scares me.
I live alone with 6 dogs and a cat. Never have visitors, no one ever calls. I suppose if I just stopped coming into work, my manager might call to check up on me. Might.
I have thought about this many times.