A Reddit user recently shed light on the unfortunate story of Joyce Vincent, a British woman who lay dead in her apartment in Wood Green, North London, for nearly three years. Captioned “Joyce Vincent — the woman who died alone in her apartment and wasn't discovered until two years later,” the post highlights why it took so long for people to even notice that Vincent was no longer around. “Joyce Vincent’s case is one of the saddest examples of someone becoming socially isolated without people realizing how isolated she had become,” the Redditor wrote in their post.