Oscar the death-predicting cat: his powers explained
February 10th, 2010 | Author: xan
We’ve all been reading about the amazing cat named Oscar who lives in a Rhode Island nursing facility and has an uncanny ability to predict the patients’ deaths. Oscar has correctly predicted the deaths of about 50 patients in the last four years and now has his own book chronicling his spooky ability. ( “Making Rounds With Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat,” by Hyperion, $23.99).
The story goes that when Oscar enters a patient’s room to curl up on their bed or sleep in the window sill, the staff knows that patient is reaching the end of their life. Once, the staff believed a patient to be very near death but Oscar kept avoiding that room, opting instead to spend time with a different patient who was believed to be in much better health. The healthier patient that Oscar chose died within hours. Then two days later Oscar went to visit the first patient who died within a couple hours. The patients and their families are said to really appreciate the comfort Oscar brings.
Has anyone other than me considered the idea that maybe Oscar isn’t predicting their deaths, maybe he’s causing them? Maybe he climbs into their beds and curls up over their faces to suffocate them. Or maybe he’s swatting at their life support tubes and unplugs them. Or maybe he’s Death personified. A furry Grim Reaper? I’m just saying….
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