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Do Not LOL Gently Into That Good Night

In a Providence, RI hospice, a cat named Oscar has been predicting deaths. When Oscar curls up next to a gravely ill patient, it means the person has four hours to live. So far he's been right 25 times.

Usually, this is the kind of story you hear from someone's friend's mom's friend's cousin's piano teacher, who happens to be named Snopes.com, but Oscar's been profiled in the New England Journal of Medicine and the AP. The story's really haunting, so we had to make an appropriately solemn graphic to go with it:

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