I have noticed this a bit in the last ten years but 2 celebrities in the last week have died and seemed to predict or at least foreshadow their own death the very day before they died which has freaked me out a little. First peaches geldof who was 25 posted what was her last twitter picture ever the day before she died of her and her mother paula yates who died of a heroin OD when she was a kid. The next day she herslef is found dead of what is likely a OD. On tuesday “the ultimate warrior” a famous WWE wrestler who was 54 died of a apparent heart attack, and the day before he died he made a appearance on “monday night raw” where he made some eerie statements about death and his legacy “living on forever” and how some day “every mans heart beats its final beat and he breathes his final breathe” and how “his spirit will be immortalized forever” in fact his speech was so eerie you should watch it to know what I mean. The link is Ultimate Warrior Dead -- WWE Legend James Hellwig Dies at 54 What do you make of this? Is there some genetic or supernatural force that allows us to feel our own death approaching or how do you explain this? Is anyone else kind of freaked out about this?
Not really; sounds to me like classic confirmation bias.
I don’t think suicide has been ruled out in the first case.
How on earth does posting a picture of yourself with your mother constitute a prediction of death?
OK, that’s two in the past week who said or did things that seemed to maybe hint at their impending demise. Around the world, about 2 million people died in the past week. We didn’t hear anthing from the 1,999,998 of them who were apparently caught offguard by their own demise.
Now what was it you were so freaked out about?
It was a little more than that. It was posting a picture of herself with her mother, who fatally ODed, a day before fatally ODing herself. And she had not been in the habit of posting that kind of picture on any regular basis.
the case of the wrestler was very creepy…the words he used right before his death, wow
Perhaps it was a message but not a mystical one, if she did actually commit suicide it could have been a rather obscure call for help. ie, if someone figures this out then I won’t kill myself.
It doesn’t really count as a prediction when you’re talking about something you’re taking action on yourself. Possibly a statement of intent though.
He had just been inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame three days prior; in that context, such florid language was to be expected.
He was 54. If you assume an average life span (~74), then he had a 1 in 7300 chance of dying on any particular day after giving that speech. Those odds aren’t that astonishing.
You do know that there is no evidence that it was an OD, right? The initial autopsy on Peaches Geldof was inconclusive, but showed no signs of hard drugs. The tox report may find something, but you are making a conclusion based on an unsupported assumption.
No, I didn’t know that. I hope it wasn’t an overdose, accidental or intentional.
I feel that many people who are within twenty-four hours of dying of natural causes might be feeling some signs of the condition that’s about to kill them.
Did you ever read a 1960s? Science Fiction short story about a chap working out that professions were dying in groups, and to a mysterious stranger discusses that to avoid having too many accountants or too many artists, people were systematically culled ? And at the last the stranger points out that the statistics ensure the professor will be gone by the next day.
Something to think about.
For a guy whose body was a walking advertisement for steroids, you can shorten that life span and reduce those odds considerably.
People who are really sick and about to die feel like they are really sick and about to die. I’ve gone to many a hospital bedside to visit someone who told me they were dying (they were) and would be dead in a day or so. They did.
I vote for confirmation bias as well. I’ve also visited people in the hospital who said they were really sick and about to die and got well and lived years longer. We tend not to remember the scores of examples of people whose “predictions” don’t come true but those few times it happens they stick in our minds.
The last three songs released by R&B singer Chuck Willis were “My Life”, “What am I Livin’ For” and “Gonna Hang up my Rock n Roll Shoes”. Then he died at the age of 30, , but I think he knew he had a serious illness.
I’ve felt I was really sick and about to die before. Turns out I was just hungover.
It is one thing to be very sick and in the hospital and feel like you are dying, these two people were healthy. Peaches was only 25 and ultimate warrior was in very good shape for his age and always bragged about how he carefully took care of his health and never took steroids in excess so he would not end up like eddie guerrero. Before he became a wrestler he was in school to be a chiropractor. As to the person who said it was confirmation bias I don’t think so becasue many other people talked about how eerie it was as well, as seen here. http://twitchy.com/2014/04/09/you-feel-like-he-knew-wrestlers-fans-note-ultimate-warriors-eerie-final-wwe-appearance-video/
I saw a couple minutes of his speech and he looked like a heart attack waiting to happen.