Do you think some people can sense when they're going to die?

Question

My husband believes he will die by the age of 33. It terrifies me that he really could be sensing his own death. He is 28 now.

We have a friend who died of cancer a few years ago, and he knew that he would die by age 26. Do you beleive some people have this ability.

Answer 1

Yes, it DOES happen.
That does NOT mean that everyone that has a death premonition will die, but it is well documented, it happens.

Answer 2

I certainly don't think people can foretell their own deaths five years in the future. ...unless they're sitting on Death Row.

On the other hand, I am the last living member of my family (except my current wife) and I was present when most of them died. All died of cancer, and all knew when their own death was approaching. All were resigned to their fate and had accepted the inevitable. None, not even my fundamentalist Pentecostal parents, wanted anything to do with religion or prayer. My father even called his longtime preacher a "parasite" and a "vulture" and insisted that he "get out, so I can die in peace!" For about two days, my father-in-law made a point of saying goodbye to everybody and then announced, "OK, I'm going now..." Then he'd fall asleep and wake up two hours later, surprised he wasn't dead. He did this so frequently, the family all thought it was "cute" and were actually surprised when He didn't wake up.

Yes, there is no doubt that seriously ill people can feel death approaching and resign themselves to it. Your 28 year-old husband is probably just feeling cynical about life.

Answer 3

I think some people might be so attuned to their own bodies that they might have an inkling when something is wrong with them (ie diseases), even if it is not apparent to others. I don't think it is possible to predict one's own death by accident or non-medical phenomena.

As for having premonitions, this is explained partially by statistics:

from Scientificamerican.com
"...Suppose that you know of 10 people a year who die and that you think about each of those people once a year. One year contains 105,120 five-minute intervals during which you might think about each of the 10 people, a probability of one out of 10,512--certainly an improbable event. Yet there are 295 million Americans. Assume, for the sake of our calculation, that they think like you. That makes 1/10,512 X 295,000,000 = 28,063 people a year, or 77 people a day for whom this improbable premonition becomes probable. With the well-known cognitive phenomenon of confirmation bias firmly in force (where we notice the hits and ignore the misses in support of our favorite beliefs), if just a couple of these people recount their miraculous tales in a public forum (next on Oprah!), the paranormal seems vindicated. In fact, they are merely demonstrating the laws of probability writ large."

I'm had a death premonitio and I also have a feeling that I will die before I am 40. But I don't take these things too seriously, and I don't jump to the conclusion that paranormal activity is taking place.

Answer 4

I believe that some people can tell when they're going to die but, unless they have a life threatening illness, I do not believe that it works so long in advance.

My grandmother passed away in the late 80s on my mother's birthday. We had planned her party for the friday before. My mom was going to change the date of her party to her actual birthday but my grandmother insisted that we keep it for the friday before. We had a great time at the party and the weekend was uneventful. Then, on my mom's birthday my grandmother had a heart attack and passed away before we could get to the hospital. It seemed as if she knew.

On the same note I had a friend who swore up and down that he would never make it past 25. He's close to 30 now and still healthier than most people I know. He barely even gets sick.

Answer 5

my grandpa told his wife he had to go to the hospital, and the drs said nothing's wrong with you. he convinced them to keep him overnight for observance and he was dead by morning, but they still can't figure out why he died.

several fridays ago my husb's grandpa told another lady that he was going to heaven that weekend, and he died on sunday night.

i have never known someone to be able to predict their deaths more than a few weeks out, but you should start asking your husband "do you WANT to die by 33? because there's a lot of evidence that shows what you say the most will actually happen! if you DON'T want to die then SHUT UP because you'll leave me a widow! if you keep saying this I AM going to make you go get a will!!!"

Answer 6

No, I don't believe people can sense when they are going to die, unless, of course they are very ill, and the doctor has given them a range of possibilities or if they have just jumped from the top of a 40 storey building.

Answer 7

Yes, I do think that some people know.

My cousin told me that she would not live to be 21. She died 3 days after her 21 birthday.

I know someone whose son said that he saw Jesus and that he was coming to take him. Her son died when he was 6 years old.

My mother always said that she hated the month of August. She died in August.

Answer 8

Yes, I do think some people know...

My Grandmother travelled around visiting people for a week before she died.. at her funeral, everyone that was visited commented on her strange way of saying goodbye when she left at the end of her visit.

Answer 9

I used to think i was going to die when i turned 32, now i'm 43.
My wife died when i was 32!

Answer 10

Well, if you're lying on the ground and you have more blood going out than coming in , then yes, you might have an inkling that you're health has suffered a major setback.