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Similarly, an awareness of death is certainly not restricted to us humans. The enormous interest generated by the case of the intuitive American cat, Oscar, indicates the fascination prescient pet behaviour holds.
Oscar lives in a nursing home and has an uncanny ability to sense when a resident is about to die. When a patient is near death, Oscar nearly always appears and hops on the bed.
The staff have come to recognise and respect Oscar's instincts, and send for the relatives of any patient he has chosen to curl up beside.
But they have no explanation for it. Oscar shows no interest in patients who are simply in poor shape, or who still have a few days to live.
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Oscar, a hospice cat has an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die
One theory says a cat's acute sensitivity to smell might enable it to detect some subtle change in metabolism around the time of death, but no one has been able to explain why any moggy should show an interest in the approach of the Grim Reaper.
Given this, it is perhaps not surprising so many people have told us of deathbed-related cat and dog incidents.
Ann Liddell described the odd behaviour of her Newfoundland dog on the night her mother died.
'At about 4.30am he started to bark - not his usual sharp warning bark, but howling. I knew instantly that my mother had died, and soon after we got the call from the hospital to confirm this.'
Michael Finch's mother was dying of cancer. One night Michael left the hospital and returned home to let the dog out.
'I will never forget this as long as I live. At 10.45pm, the dog began to howl like a wolf. It was spine-chilling. I just knew this was because Mum had died.
For five minutes he howled uncontrollably and then took to bed.
'The dog was a Cavalier King Charles spaniel and had never made such a deep, wild and rasping sound. When my father and sister returned later, they confirmed Mum had died at 10.45 pm.'
Susan Burman told how when her husband was on his deathbed, their cat curled up by his feet. As he took his dying breath, the fur on the cat's back stuck out as if by static electricity.
We were told by a carer of a very similar reaction by a resident's cat which normally slept on his bed.
The cat happened to come into the room at the moment the resident died, and a nurse who was present reported: 'It shrieked and sped around the room a couple of times - and then shot out of the room as though it didn't want to be there.
The cat sensed the spirits had finally come for the resident.'
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Miracle: Velma Thomas was clinically brain dead, yet woke up ten minutes after her life support was shut down. Picture posed by model.
Heart specialist Kevin Eggleston said: 'There are things that as physicians and nurses we can't always explain. I think this is one of those cases.'
He said Mrs Thomas had no pulse, no heartbeat or brain activity after her admission to hospital. She had been found unconscious after suffering a heart attack at her home in West Virginia.
While at the Charleston Area Medical Centre she suffered two further heart attacks and was placed on a life support system.
About 25 family members and friends gathered inside the hospital waiting room. 'We just prayed and prayed and prayed,' said her son Tim, 36. 'And I came to the conclusion she wasn't going to make it.
'I was given confirmation from God to take her off the ventilator and my pastor said the same thing. I felt a sense of peace that I made the right decision. Her skin had already started hardening, her hands and toes were curling up. There was no life there.'
He said after he left the hospital he was called and told she had shown signs of life.
By the time he got to her hospital room, Mrs Thomas was alert and talking. 'She had already asked, "Where's my son?",' he said.
Dr Eggleston added: 'It's a miracle.''"
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We are the sophisticates, the intellects of post world wars, who, with sophistry that would make an ancient Greek smile, have caused more death with a simple operation than the wars we anathematize and claim we hate.
They call it Forensic Entomology, where forensics refers to the determination of the cause, location and time of death and Entomology is the study of insects.
Forensic Entomology uses insects to help law inspectors determine the cause, location and time of death of a human being. Insect life cycles act as precise clocks which being within minutes of death. They can be used to closely determine the time of death when other methods are useless. They can also show if a body has been moved after death.
This biological section that recently been applied through all the world’s scientific authorities, was founded by Dr. Ali Rasmi, a professor at the Egyptian national center for research.
“Insects analyses have proven a great value for the criminal research and law enforcement, where as it can also go further to determine the cause of death whether poison was involved or a drug overdose” Dr. Ali said. He called for all the law enforcement authorities to issue what makes applying this technique recognized at crime research. And to establish educational centers for insects student at Forensic medicine departments.
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