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Do Not LOL Gently Into That Good Night |
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 by Izzy Grinspan, July 26, 2007 |
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In a Providence, RI hospice, a cat named Oscar has been predicting deaths. When Oscar curls up next to a gravely ill patient, it means the person has four hours to live. So far he's been right 25 times.
Usually, this is the kind of story you hear from someone's friend's mom's friend's cousin's piano teacher, who happens to be named Snopes.com, but Oscar's been profiled in the New England Journal of Medicine and the AP. The story's really haunting, so we had to make an appropriately solemn graphic to go with it:
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Izzy Grinspan is Jewcy's ex-managing editor. Her work has been published in Salon, The Believer, and The Village Voice. |
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François Blumenfeld-Kouchner
Fascinating story indeed. Was just discussing with my fiancée how the cat may have gotten it right.
Anonymous
There is nothing that this cat "gets right." This cat is evil. All cats are evil...the manifestation of evil. Now there's one of them running amok in our senior centers. Mark my words, this is just practice. Lo we will fear the day when our cute cuddly kittens snuggle up to us all and unless you have a loyal dog guarding your person in the night, we will finished as a species!
Anonymous
It means nothing really Nobody can predict DOD of any living creature
Only one thing that death is a certainty for all living creatures.
Anonymous
Some of the responses here are really dumb. Manifestation of Evil, give me a break. I would say there's a change in scent during a person's final hours. Most animals smell it and ignore it. This cat feels a need to comfort a fellow animal. I think it's a good thing. It lets the medical staff know that it's time to contact the relatives and tell them that their loved one is not just fading away, but fading fast. Even if the patient never gains concious, at least it helps provide closure for relatives who are there during the final hours.