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A day in the life of a forensic cleaning team

Published on Mon, Oct 7th 2019 News & Politics Rectangular HD

We follow trauma cleaners as they sanitise and clear a property where a man died but was not discovered for weeks.

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It’s usually the stench that prompts neighbours to call police.

It’s unexpected, metallic, rotting. It coats the inside of your mouth, revisiting you hours later.

It has been three weeks since Arthur* sat on his bed, his feet planted next to his bedside table where his wristwatch and bedside clock ticked away, then slumped over and drew his last breath.

As he lay there, curled over, the plums and banana he had laid out to eat shrank and grew mould.

His chequered handkerchiefs, blue slacks and white socks blew on a clothes line in the wind in his backyard. The dishes in the sink went unwashed and the days on the calendar he had been crossing off remained untouched.

The 89-year-old died in March and for three weeks, his home became his tomb.

Read more: https://www.theage.com.au/national/what-happens-if-we-die-alone-these-are-the-people-who-know-20190418-p51fh1.html

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