Dying close to date of birth many years later

[TheGlow]

I'm not sure this is really reincarnation related but really who could answer this question but those who remember their previous deaths.

So weird question. I have known an unreasonably disperportionate amount of people who linger on in sickness or old age until their birthday arrives then they pass on that day or the next.

I wonder if there is any reason for this.

 

[TheGlow]

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-statistics-people-die-birthday.html

The study, led by Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross, has led to a paper being published in the Annals of Epidemiology, in which the researchers say that they found their numbers by studying almost two and a half million deaths over the period 1969 to 2008. They say that people on average have an almost twenty percent more of a chance of dying on their birthday from cardiovascular disease, than any other day, and the number is slightly higher for strokes. Interestingly, they also found that there is even a slightly greater risk of dying (10.8) on that special day from cancer.
But the number that really stands out, of course, is the 34.9% greater chance of dying by suicide by men on their birthdays. A sobering statistic if ever there was one. Women on the other hand showed no statistical increase in suicides on their birthdays, which might indicate that women don’t take getting older so hard, or are more concerned about those they will be leaving behind.

 

[TheGlow]

http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1452114/jewish/Is-It-Special-to-Pass-Away-on-Ones-Birthday.htm


I did find this interesting note that I guess should apply to all people of the book. Jews/Christians/Muslims

My grandmother passed away on her Jewish birthday. A relative said that in Judaism it is considered a particular blessing to die on one’s birthday. Is that correct?
Answer:


That is indeed the case. The Talmud teaches that Moses passed away on the 7th day of the Jewish month of Adar, which was his 120th birthday. The Talmud explains that G?d calculates and completes the lifespan a righteous person, as we read in Exodus (23:21), “I will complete the number of your days.”1


Why is this significant?


The Chassidic masters explain that on the day we are born we are entrusted with a mission. The righteous person lives his life achieving his fullest potential and completes his mission on earth in the most perfect way possible. This perfection is expressed in the fact that his mission ends on the very same day that it was begun.2

 

[tanguerra]

Hard to say. I wonder if it's a coincidence or really happens that much? My friend who died this year died a week after his birthday, come to think of it! But others seem to have died at random times, maybe there's no pattern?


I know a lot of very old people say they are holding out until they get to 80 or 90 or whatever it is. People might be extra depressed on a birthday I suppose, if they were lonely. People might overindulge in food or drink if there were 'party people'?


Maybe there is more to it than that?