Oscar the Shinigami...
Nursing home cat can sense death?
Thu Jul 26, 9:43 AM By Julie Steenhuysen
CHICAGO (Reuters) - When Oscar the Cat visits residents of the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, Rhode Island, the staff jumps into action -- Oscar can sense within hours when someone is about to die.
In his two years living in Steere's end-stage dementia unit, Oscar has been at the bedside of more than 25 residents shortly before they died, according to Dr. David Dosa of Brown University in Providence.
He wrote about Oscar in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Well, just a snippet of the interesting.
Tell me, pre-med students, what are your views on the phenomenon?
*tips hat*
Yuy Ren
posted by Yuy at
4:24 PM
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As a health sciences student, I postulate that the cat can smell certain pheromones given off by the near-death.
Coincidently, these pheromones smell like fish.
By
Steven, at 11:03 PM
Really? Sounds like bs.....
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Yuy, at 1:21 AM
Evolution. :P
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Anonymous, at 12:41 PM
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