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Re:A singer apologized, closed his eyes, dropped his head an... by adventured on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @01:25AM (#22104715)
When my grandmother died, she sent her husband out to the store, took off her rings (which she never removed), and was dead when he returned.

She had been in failing health, was around 90 years old, had recently gone through a rough fight with cancer, a broken leg from a fall, and had just been in a nursing home temporarily. She fought with everyone to be allowed to go home and die, she didn't want to die in the nursing home. She went home and died a few days later.

She very clearly knew.

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Re:A singer apologized, closed his eyes, dropped his head an... by qwerty456127 on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @06:08AM (#22105880)
Seems like she has reached a particularly high level of spiritual development (which can be more rationally defined as self-minfulness). Great Tibetan Buddhist masters use to die the same way - they would tell everybody in advance and prepare themselves.
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Re:A singer apologized, closed his eyes, dropped his head an... by ganzuul on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @01:35AM (#22104747)
Till death do us part. Wow.
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