house of death?

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my neighbours wife died last monday. she wasnt really old, only about 60 something i would guess and they had just bought the place earlier this year as their 'retirement' house, you know, spend the golden years in it etc.
anyway, she found out she had cancer a few months ago and it all went downhill from there. very sad, she was a lovely lady and her husband is a nice man who seems a tad dazed at the moment.

thing is, i found out today that the same thing happened to the previous owners! within months of them moving in they found out that the wife had cancer and she died a few months later. they had bought the house as their retirement house.

creepy or what!

― donna (donna), Saturday, 29 November 2003 05:55 (twenty-one years ago)

building houses out of plutonium is a bad idea.

alernatively - people who are old have a higher death rate

but yeah.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Saturday, 29 November 2003 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Blimey. That is eerie, Donna.

And being sixtysomething does not mean you're "old". You're not officially "old" until you're about 85, maybe 90 if you're especially fit and healthy.

(Thus says a girl whose mom is nearing sixty so there might be a bit of bias there.)

― Tenacious Dee (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 30 November 2003 04:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Old = >10 years older than me, so that's mid-50s on. Young = >5 years younger than me, which is almost everyone here.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 30 November 2003 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Saddest thing I heard: My friend told me a colleague at work was pregnant. She thought she had difficulty with the pregagncy,or at least the doctor assured her that was the case. No, it was terminal lung cancer. :-(

― nathalie (nathalie), Sunday, 30 November 2003 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

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