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DOES DEATH TAKE A
HOLIDAY? We have all heard stories about people who seemingly wait for important occasions to pass before they die, such as a terminally ill patient wanting to be there for her daughter’s wedding day. In fact, there are studies that support this phenomenon, including research showing declines in death rates among Jewish men before Passover and among elderly Chinese women before the Harvest Moon Festival. More recently, however, a statistician reviewed the death certificates of people who died of cancer from 1989-2000, and analyzed how many deaths occurred before and after three important dates
96.3%