Death Race 2005
Two days ago I was going to post that the studies be damned, there is a definite correlation between the holidays and when people die. Since the day after Christmas, we had been swamped with obituaries. We normally set aside two pages for obituaries. Four straight days the obits overflowed onto a third or fourth page. These are our readers I'm talking about!
But I got busy and didn't get to it, and that's a good thing. Saturday and today the number of obits fell back to normal, running short of two pages. (Special sympathies to anyone who has a family member die during the holidays. My mother-in-law died over Thanksgiving a couple years ago and that holiday has lost its luster in our house.)
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A big-city friend was amused that I read the obituaries. "Small town," I said. I'm glad you posted the above; I thought it was just me.
I always believed that people tried to "hang on" until Christmas for a variety of reasons (family, spiritual, etc.)
Posted on January 1, 2006 1:17 PM
I do business with hospitals and funeral homes every day and agree the toll rises dramaticly the day after Christmas.
Posted on January 1, 2006 9:23 PM
We lost four friends during the holidays.
Posted on January 2, 2006 7:00 AM
My sympathies, Dog. And I still believe it, Billy and Sue.
Posted on January 2, 2006 1:17 PM