We'll Be Seeing More and More of This

Landlord finds mummified tenant.

If you were to automate enough of your routine financial responsibilities with a service like CheckFree, had a mail slot that opened to a foyer, and didn't have much physical contact with the outside world, your assumed presence as a utilities customer could easily continue on 'autopilot' for several years after you expired, and nobody would notice. Kinda reminds me of that old Ray Bradbury story about the house.

Weird.