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    2 months ago

    I doubt it. It’s the sort of thing that would be prone to confirmation bias. If someone dies at an opportune moment, it makes a nice story and is repeated. If someone dies randomly in spite of something they’re looking forward to, it tends not to get mentioned.

    That being said, the placebo effect is real, so it’s not impossible.