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Radio 4,26 Jul 2009,26 mins

A Death Unnoticed

Face the Facts

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John Waite presents the investigative consumer series. Every week, councils across the UK fund and organise funerals for people who have nobody else to take care of their affairs. Often these are deaths which have remained undiscovered for weeks, months or even years. In an ageing society, it is an issue expected to get worse. So how can someone die and no one notice? John Waite investigates the background to some of these desperately sad cases and asks whether anything could be done to make them less likely.

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