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The Grim Reaper is…a cat

July 26, 2007

Grim Reaper catIn a Rhode Island nursing home, death comes in a strange form…a brown and white cat who seems to know when patients are at their end. Normally not a socializing creature, when the creepy feline curls up with a patient they usually meet their end within just four hours. He has been studied by the New England Journal of Medicine and has been observed to be accurate in at least 25 cases. He is statistically better at predicting death than the rest of the nursing home staff. Fortunately, most patients, by the time they receive such a visit from the furry little harbinger of death, they are too out of it to realize he’s there. Families, for the most part, seem to find it comforting that some”one” was there with their loved one in his or her final hours.

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