My experiance with "The Smell of Death" and Fat parents- Response to Sanguinelady It's absolutely horrid that a person can smell like and appear to be death. Unfortunately, I've experienced this before. About a year ago both of my parents were laid up in the hospital because lord beetus had threatened to take a limb/rotted holes into their skin. My father was of worse health. Unlike my mother, he had the possibility of losing both of his legs as well as part of his thigh/ass cheek.  I have no idea how, but the family that mainly visited him seemed to not noticed the putrid smell of rotting flesh and death. I mean, they're not healthy in any way. My one brother was there and he's overly thin with an enormous coating of fat suffocating his heart and my one sister that was there is heading in the same direction as our father. All of this happened after YEARS of me expressing concern and, for a few months while my mother was in the hospital (she went first), cooking for him. Of course I'd cool healthy normal portions (I'm a great fucking cook) and I'd even leave a little extra on the stove to try to get him to not go to the bar to eat more food later that night. Of course, he'd eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner at home and then go to the bar and gorge on greasy bar food and a few beers. By the time it was made known that he was going to the hospital I was absolutely livid.  I was the one who made sure my mother was shipped off to the hospital, because she was being stubborn. She would've died if she had waited another day And I was the one who had to make sure my father got to the hospital. All this only a few months apart.  My rage knew no fucking bounds. My mom had been a psuedo health nut all these years and my dad was blatantly ignoring his doctors and killing himself slowly. I don't care if he was in a hospital bed that bitch was going to hear it When I showed up at the hospital, I was fuming. Not for selfish reasons. Not because I was now left alone to deal with everything at home in the middle of nowhere in the country with no car, no money, no access to anything but because this man recieved years worth of warnings from doctors, friends, and myself since I was just a young child and here he is half fucking dead making his family put up with this traumatic sight and smell The minute he woke up I said Hey dad how are you doing? I'm fine You fucking better be because I swear to christ I did not spend the last 2 1/2 months chasing after your ass because you insisted you needed to be taken care of for you to just start fucking rotting from the inside out. I swear to god if I ever see you light up another cigarette and grab five candy bars because your sugar is low I will flip the chair you're sitting on. Do you want to live to see me grow up? What about your grandson (my sister's kid)? You really must have a death wish. Not this now Then when? When you're already fucking dead and the family has to explain mortality to a two year old because you had to go and take after your friends? I thought you learned something when they died? Did it not sink in that they were all half your age? Are you just stupid? (I'll save you the rest of the conversation) It went on for quite a long time, and luckily the nurses all understood and let me have a go at this dumb selfish fuck. This happened in a span of 6 - 7 months. *6 - 7 months of me arguing with my older brother and sister about picking me up when they visit our parents. Fighting with them about picking up some extra groceries for me and asking them (but them never coming through) to check up on me sometimes because I have an anxiety disorder and I'm manic depressed.  I was 16 at the time. I used to hallucinate a lot when I was younger as well. Everytime I think about all this fucking mess I remember my dad saying shit like Well anon my health doesnt effect you Oh really now? Oh wow I really let go on this one.. Side note: The reason I didnt bitch at my mom is because she was a mini-moon as opposed to the obeast that is my father. She wasn't aware that she was diabetic and had been steadily losing weight after realizing she was quickly making her descent into beast territory.  TL;DR: You health effects your children and also living people can smell like death.