How in God’s name could such a thing happen? It sucks getting old in this fucking country!

This isn't the first time a patient was found in a stairwell weeks after they went missing. You would think that the stairwells would be the first place they'd look. Pure negligence on their part.

https://www.cnn.com/2013/10/09/justice/body-in-hospital-stairwell/index.html
Body found in hospital stairwell is missing patient, examiner says
By Lateef Mungin and Dan Simon, CNN
Updated 1:51 PM ET, Thu October 10, 2013

She checked herself into a hospital weeks ago for a bladder infection. But nobody could have predicted it would end like this.

When Lynne Spalding went missing from San Francisco General Hospital, her friends frantically searched and left messages on a Facebook page to keep each other hopeful.

On Tuesday, the messages on the "Find Lynne" Facebook page turned from hope to anger. A body was found in an exterior stairwell of the hospital, and the San Francisco medical examiner confirmed Thursday that it is Spalding, also known as Lynne Ford.

How could this be? Spalding's friends had searched throughout San Francisco, in alleys and shelters, handing out hundreds of fliers. They wondered whether the woman, dazed by powerful medication, was wandering around somewhere.

What an awful way to die.

So sad.

Yea, a dead body smells like you wouldn't believe and I don't think a door to a stairwell would stop the smell.

The poor guy might have died from starvation.

they have stairwells so infrequently used.

There should never be a scenario where someone is trapped inside.