Death coincidences

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My wife's father died on Easter Sunday 2002 of a pulmonary aneurysm. He went suddenly and peacefully and his death was totally unexpected. We had been to visit him and he died the following day. The fact that he was a vicar and died on Easter Sunday was a kind of reassuring coincidence, but a bigger one was that my own father died the following Easter of exactly the same thing. He also went suddenly and peacefully and it was totally unexpected. It happened the day after he had been round to see us. His last words, so my mother said, as she phoned 999, were "I don't need an ambulance".
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Date submitted:Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:57:43 +0000Coincidence ID:4718