Lonely deaths of middle-aged, youth brackets stand out amid single-person households
Social affairsDec 7, 2017
Not only do elderly but also middle-aged and youth brackets account for a large proportion of people who die a lonely and unnoticed death amid an increase in the number of single-person households, central and local government data showed Thursday.Cases of "godoksa," or lonely deaths of people who had no ties with their relatives or neighborhoods, no longer involve elderly people only and are seen across all age brackets, as society has an increasing number of people living alone and severing ti