09-12-2019, 05:52 PM
timg wrote:
he probably could have survived without anything for 5 days.
I seriously doubt that. 5 days with no liquids of any kind would probably have killed him, especially as he was "elderly".
When we were doing the walkthough for our house after we bought it (15 years ago), an ambulance pulled up across the street. We found out later that the woman who lived there had fallen, and her niece hadn't heard from her for a few days and came by to check on her. She was extremely dehydrated and died the next day at the hospital.