Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Wednesday, February 03, 2010

This could be unsettling...

...for some of the elderly folk who aren't near death...

Oscar the cat can smell

"A CAT that detects when nursing home patients have just hours to live has accurately predicted up to 50 deaths."
Is anyone surprised that an animal with senses many, many times greater than ours might be able to detect changes in a person that preceeds death? It seems to me that the cat could be a great comfort to these people in their last hours and minutes (though, in all honesty, it might terrify them, too)...


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