A tax auditor in Finland died at his desk, and his co-workers didn't notice for two entire days according to Forbes. He had closed his office door while checking tax returns and everyone else assumed he wanted to be left alone, so no one disturbed him until a friend called him to ask whether he wanted to get lunch. It mirrors a plot point in the Pale King where an IRS examiner died at his desk and it didn't occur to anyone for five days that he was dead--in the book, the IRS employee becomes a ghost haunting the office, his spectral form occasionally seen going over a batch of returns. Forbes notes that the story itself is actually not new--it happened in 2004--but instead points to something that, while disturbing, is not a completely unknown thing. In 2011, for example, a woman died in her cubicle but no one noticed until the next day. Like our Finnish man, this woman, who lived in LA, was working on a compliance audit when she died. In Japan, deaths such as this are attributed to "karoshi," literally death by overwork, something that the governmenthas been trying to curb by mandating vacations. However, dying at your desk and no one noticing is not just restricted to work: a man in Taiwan, for example, died after a three day gaming binge, something that went at first unnoticed because "When tired, he would sleep face down on the table or doze off slumped in his chair."