Kodokushi: The Lonely Death Epidemic Nobody in the West Is Talking About
In Japan last year, nearly 77,000 people died alone, and in over 7,000 of those cases, the body wasn't found for more than a month. The Japanese have a word for it; kodokushi. Lonely death. And Japan has been alarmed enough by the scale of it that they appointed a cabinet-level Minister of Loneliness to fight it.
In this episode, Michael asks the question nobody in the West is asking loudly enough; what makes us think it can't happen here?
Because the conditions that built the kodokushi epidemic in Japan; an aging population, weakened community structures, rural infrastructure quietly…
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