{"id":4461,"date":"2007-07-27T00:14:18","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T00:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2007\/07\/cat-who-detects-death-and-question-what-death\/"},"modified":"2007-07-27T00:14:18","modified_gmt":"2007-07-27T00:14:18","slug":"cat-who-detects-death-and-question-what-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2007\/07\/cat-who-detects-death-and-question-what-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat who detects Death and the question – What is Death?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

A cat at Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center<\/a> knows when a patient in the center is about to die and curls up near him\/her. The cat has been right in 25 cases so far. The cat is the best predictor of death in that center so far. (Nursing home cat can predict impending death<\/a>)<\/p>\n

It reminds me of what my mother had told me once, on when someone from a house is about to die, cats start \"crying\" in front of that house (even when the person who died was in the hospital) \u2013 it happened in the case of two deaths in our house. Of course, the cats used to \"cry\" many times in our neighborhood and I am not sure that someone really died everytime!<\/p>\n

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A US cat that is reportedly able to sense when a nursing home\u2019s residents are about to die is baffling doctors.<\/p>\n

Oscar has a habit of curling up next to patients at the home in Providence, Rhode Island, in their final hours.<\/p>\n

According to the author of a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, the two-year-old cat has been observed to be correct in 25 cases so far.<\/p>\n

Staff now alert the families of residents when he sits down next to their ailing loved one.<\/p>\n

\"He doesn\u2019t make many mistakes. He seems to understand when patients are about to die,\" David Dosa, a professor at Brown University who carried out the research, told the Associated Press news agency.
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It is clearly know that many animals \u2013 including cats \u2013 are known to predict many things including earthquakes. In fact, in Japan Catfish<\/a> is supposed to be the best predictor of earthquakes. Basically, some kind of waves (ultra-sonic or electro-magnetic) are detected by the animals which come through when an earthquake strike.<\/p>\n

So, its not some \"super-natural\" thing that happens.. but some scientific detection of waves that help the animals \"know\" about these things.<\/p>\n

Hmm.. so far so good.. but then this Nursing Home incident begs the question \u2013 is Death a Wave Event? When death occurs \u2013 does a change in electromagnetic wave\/ultrasonic wave occur BEFORE the final end actually happens? Which of course, loops back to the question if aura is a reality?<\/p>\n

Vedic scientists & rishis have said that there is a physical body and an astral (or soul body)<\/a> as have many modern schools of spirituality. So, is a change in that wave-centric body the trigger for the animals like this cat? Does that appear well in advance of the physical body\u2019s death?<\/p>\n

Taking this line of thought further, does death come due to physical causes? If the mark of \"death\" is already visible in the wave-body of a person, and because of which ..then the certainty of his\/her physical death is establish, then is Death really a physical phenomenon or a wave phenomenon?<\/p>\n

Because if it was indeed a physical phenomenon, the there is no question of a detecting any changes to any electromagnetic or ultra-sonic waves!? A person dies because of failure of an organ\u2026 period! Wave or no wave!<\/p>\n

One thing that should be explored in this Cat-game in this Nursing Home is \u2013 What really is Death? <\/p>\n\n

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A cat at Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center<\/a> knows when a patient in the center is about to die and curls up near him\/her. The cat has been right in 25 cases so far. The cat is the best predictor of death in that center so far. (Nursing home cat can predict impending death<\/a>)<\/p>\n

It reminds me of what my mother had told me once, on when someone from a house is about to die, cats start "crying" in front of that house (even when the person who died was in the hospital) – it happened in the case of two deaths in our house. Of course, the cats used to "cry" many times in our neighborhood and I am not sure that someone really died everytime!<\/p>\n

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A US cat that is reportedly able to sense when a nursing home’s residents are about to die is baffling doctors.<\/p>\n

Oscar has a habit of curling up next to patients at the home in Providence, Rhode Island, in their final hours.<\/p>\n

According to the author of a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, the two-year-old cat has been observed to be correct in 25 cases so far.<\/p>\n

Staff now alert the families of residents when he sits down next to their ailing loved one.<\/p>\n

"He doesn’t make many mistakes. He seems to understand when patients are about to die," David Dosa, a professor at Brown University who carried out the research, told the Associated Press news agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sciences","category-spirituality"],"yoast_head":"\nCat who detects Death and the question - What is Death?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A cat at Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center knows when a patient in the center is about to die and curls up near him\/her. The cat has been right in 25 cases so far. The cat is the best predictor of death in that center so far. 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