Disconnect.

Demonstrating how fragmented and isolated American society has become in the 21st century, MSNBC.com reports that

The partially mummified body of a man dead for more than a year has been found in a chair in front of his television, which was still on, authorities said....Neighbors said they had thought Ricardo was in a hospital or nursing home. “We never thought to check on him,” said neighbor Diane Devon.

I assume he had no children or grandchildren; but still, how awful. Anything else I can say about that just seems pitifully trite.