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People Who Foresee Their Own Death

Lord Lucan said:
A woman who works for us who is widowed has a mother in law in her 80's who lives in an aged care facility in the same town that we all do. Her mother in law enjoys good health for someone of her age, so our friend was startled when she went to pay her a visit last week. Her mother in law spent two hours telling our friend that ''The Pearly Gates had opened their doors and were waiting for her.'' She was quite lucid, in good health as mentioned, aside from a slight head cold. The nurses had reported no strange behaviour and our friend relayed to us that her mother in law offered no reason for her belief, but was 100% convinced that she was about to die.
One week on and she is still alive.
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Old lady (Gladys) across the road from Mum kept doing that. She'd stripped the house bare in preparation for her death and kept saying she was going to see the Lord. This dragged on for 5 or 6 years, until she died at 95 (just a short time before my Dad, who also thought death was near).
I think people who are that old kinda give up and accept the inevitability of death.
 
Iris said:
The last couple of years of my Mother's life she used to say that she had been here too long.
She died at 76 which seemed rather early.
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Interesting thread.

Just before the Christmas of 2005, a few of my family gathered in my Grandfathers flat to wish each other the season’s greetings - my Grandfather being in his early 90’s at the time.

As we were sitting there chatting over cups of tea, and cake etc. he out of the blue announced that he wanted to buy everyone a Christmas drink at his local pub, and included the women to his invite - this was a little odd for Grandad as he was an old fashioned kind of guy, who was against the idea of women being in the company of men in pubs.

He was in no way a chauvinist or anything like that, on the contrary, he just thought groups of men in pubs, with all their bad language and smoking, should be kept separate to the ”sensitivities of ladyfolk”

Halfway through the evening we were sitting at a very large table in the Lounge bar, with Grandad sitting at the table’s top end, he was looking around at each member of the family, with a knowing smile upon his face like he knew something that we didn’t, I managed to make eye contact him and he gave me a deep deep stare, still with the knowing smile, and I got a little emotional as I knew what was going on in his mind.

Sure enough, two weeks into the new year he was found in bed by my uncle, and he’d passed.

My uncle told me that when he found him, he had a tiny little smile on his face, like he was happy to go
 
Lord Lucan said:
A woman who works for us who is widowed has a mother in law in her 80's who lives in an aged care facility in the same town that we all do. Her mother in law enjoys good health for someone of her age, so our friend was startled when she went to pay her a visit last week. Her mother in law spent two hours telling our friend that ''The Pearly Gates had opened their doors and were waiting for her.'' She was quite lucid, in good health as mentioned, aside from a slight head cold. The nurses had reported no strange behaviour and our friend relayed to us that her mother in law offered no reason for her belief, but was 100% convinced that she was about to die.
One week on and she is still alive.
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Anything to report?
 
My Granny was 102 when she died, she was as fit as a fiddle until she reached 100 and walked everywhere, however she did tell me a few months before her death that she had, had enough and it was soon time to go her reasoning was that every friend and acquittance she had ever known (save from family) had died, she was the oldest of 12 children and despite having the harder life of them all she was the last one to go
 
My Mother had persistent back pain after a car accident and nothing seemed to help although I took her to specialists and swimming therapy.
Then one day she said that she had been here too long and not long after I went to see her on a Friday after picking up my daughter from TAFE. which was unusual as the family always went on Saturday.
She looked better than I had seen her for a long time and even walked in the garden, saying how much she wished she had blue delphiniums instead of pink.
Next morning Dad rang to say she had died and as we walked outside there was one tall blue delphinium over all the pink ones.
 
My mum had Alzheimer's before she passed. She wanted to go way before she did pass on. She had terminal lucidity before she passed, which I know has been discussed elsewhere.

Not wanting to distract the thread, I once took her to the hospital. The doctor asked her if she wanted them to do a procedure. She replied 'you can cut my bloody head off for all I care'.

Anyway, back to the thread.
 
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