Grandparents Found Dead of Heart Attack and Starvation

CEOCambodiaNews · Post by **CEOCambodiaNews** » Mon May 08, 2023 6:28 pm

Cambodia news, (Battambang):An elderly couple were found dead in their home by their daughter, Ms. Chanthou, who stated that after not being able to contact her parents by phone three days ago, she came to check on them. "When I opened the door, I saw my father lying dead on the couch and my mother lying dead on the bed." She screamed in surprise and the neighbors came running to the house .

The woman added that her father was So Oeun, 76 years old, and her mother was It Loeun, 66 years old.

According to the conclusion of the competent experts, it was confirmed that the grandmother died about 3-5 days ago: Later, the authorities confirmed that the grandfather first died of a heart attack, while the grandmother died of starvation.
RIP.

hanno · Post by **hanno** » Mon May 08, 2023 6:51 pm

Caring daughter…. Seriously, survive the Khmer Rouge and then starve to death?

IraHayes · Post by **IraHayes** » Mon May 08, 2023 8:03 pm

hanno wrote: ↑Mon May 08, 2023 6:51 pm Caring daughter…. Seriously, survive the Khmer Rouge and then starve to death?

This was my first thought, too, on my first reading of the story. However, look at the house. It's rather nice for an elderly couple. A wooden shack with a sheetsteel roof would be more fitting if the old lady did indeed die of starvation due to her inability to afford food. And the implication of stating she "died of starvation" draws one to the conclusion they were poor and destitute, which is probably not the case here.
What is more likely is the old lady simply gave up. Why didn't she tell her neighbours her husband had died? Why didn't she tell her daughter?

Soriya · Post by **Soriya** » Mon May 08, 2023 9:34 pm

IraHayes wrote: ↑Mon May 08, 2023 8:03 pm
hanno wrote: ↑Mon May 08, 2023 6:51 pm Caring daughter…. Seriously, survive the Khmer Rouge and then starve to death?
This was my first thought, too, on my first reading of the story. However, look at the house. It's rather nice for an elderly couple. A wooden shack with a sheetsteel roof would be more fitting if the old lady did indeed die of starvation due to her inability to afford food. And the implication of stating she "died of starvation" draws one to the conclusion they were poor and destitute, which is probably not the case here.
What is more likely is the old lady simply gave up. Why didn't she tell her neighbours her husband had died? Why didn't she tell her daughter?

Or she was reliant on the man, maybe due to some mental/medical condition.