Does death have its own plan?..
Mystical correspondence between the Soviet writer Yevgeny Petrov and the mysterious stranger who foresaw his death
The Soviet writer Yevgeny Petrov - the one who, together with Ilya Ilf, wrote the famous “The Twelve Chairs” and “The Golden Calf” - had a very interesting hobby. He collected envelopes - but not all in a row, but from his own letters. It would seem an unthinkable thing, but Petrov came up with an excellent method: he wrote a letter abroad and made up the entire address - the city, the street, the house, and the addressee's last name. Naturally, after a couple of months the letter was returned, decorated with beautiful stamps “The addressee is incorrect.”
And so in the spring of 1939, Evgeny Petrov decided to receive an envelope with New Zealand stamps. He invented the city of Hydeberville, in which the mythical Meryl Eugene Weasley lived in house number 7 on Wrightbeach Street. And, carried away by the game, he put a letter in the envelope: “My dear Meryl! My sincerest condolences to you on the passing of your Uncle Pete. Hang in there, buddy! And I'm sorry that it took me so long to answer you. How is Ingrid doing? Kiss your daughter, she’s probably quite big already. I’m waiting for your answer, your Evgeniy.”
A month passed, a second, a third - and the letter was not returned. Petrov began to forget about him, but at the end of the summer he unexpectedly received... an answer from New Zealand. Having read the return address, the writer received a real shock - the envelope read: “Meryl Eugene Weasley, 7 Wrightbeach, Hydeberville, New Zealand.” There was also a post office stamp confirming the sender. But what was most surprising was the contents of the envelope.
The text of the letter received was as follows: “Dear Evgeniy! Thank you for your sympathy! Uncle Pete died in a completely ridiculous way, and this tragedy unsettled our entire family for six months. That’s why I haven’t written for so long, but Ingrid and I have not forgotten you and the three days that you spent with us. Gloria has really grown half a head, but she still won’t part with the Russian bear that you brought her. Yours, Meryl." But that was not all - from the envelope, Petrov, with shaking hands, took out a photograph in which he was captured in an embrace with a completely unfamiliar man! Seeing the date in the photo, the writer grabbed his heart - it was on that day, October 9 last year, that he ended up in the hospital with a severe form of pneumonia, and for several days the doctors literally pulled him out of the other world...
Evgeniy Petrov never believed in any mysticism, and therefore immediately wrote to New Zealand again. But he did not wait for an answer - a war began in Europe, and Petrov became a war correspondent for the Informburo from its very first days. By the way, his colleagues claimed that after receiving a strange letter, this eternal joker became gloomy and withdrawn, and stopped joking altogether...
Well, this story didn’t end funny at all. In 1942, Evgeny Petrov was flying on a plane from Sevastopol to the capital, and this plane was shot down by the Germans in the Rostov region. Mysticism - but on the same day when it became known about the death of the plane, a letter from New Zealand arrived at the writer’s home. In this letter, Meryl Weasley admired the Soviet soldiers and was worried about Petrov's life. Among other things, the letter contained the following lines: “Do you remember, Evgeny, you told me after swimming in the lake that you were not destined to drown, but that you were destined to crash on a plane. I beg you, fly as little as possible!”
Based on this story, a short film “Envelope” was shot with Kevin Spacey in the title role, which was directed by Russian director Alexei Nuzhny based on his own script.
Death from exhaustion at the screen. All its unusualness lies in its surprise.
2005 A 28-year-old Korean video game fan collapsed to the floor and died in an Internet bar after playing for 50 hours non-stop.
From the claw of a lioness
2007 45-year-old Oktay Makhmudov from Azerbaijan climbed down a rope into a lion's cage at the Kiev Zoo and shouted to the numb visitors:
God will save me if he exists!
A few seconds later, the lioness jumped on him and severed his artery, killing the intruder instantly.
The unusual death of a little girl
2008 Seven-year-old Abigail Taylor died after her internal organs were partially sucked into the powerful swimming pool pump she was careless to sit on. Surgeons replaced her intestines and pancreas with donor organs. The baby died from cancer caused by one of the transplanted organs.
In 207 BC e. Greek philosopher Grisippus died laughing watching his drunken donkey try to eat figs.
121 BC, Gaius Gracchus, a Roman general, according to Plutarch, was killed for a reward of gold equal to the weight of his head. One of the conspirators in his murder beheaded Guy, cleared his skull of brains and filled its cavity with molten lead. When the lead hardened, the head was taken to the Roman Senate and weighed. The murderer was rewarded with seventeen pounds of gold.
And you will die from the eagle and the turtle
458 BC Aeschylus was killed... by an eagle! He dropped a turtle on Aeschylus's head, confusing the playwright's bald head with a stone.
Hotter coals!
42 BC Portia Cato, wife of Marcus Brutus, died after swallowing hot coals after learning of her husband's death.
1927 died of suffocation and a broken neck when her long scarf got caught in the wheel of the car she was riding in with the driver. He did not immediately notice that Isadora’s body was dragging behind the car (the driving was terribly noisy then). The screams of the crowd helped the driver wake up, but it was too late. Duncan's heart stopped.
The Unusual and Unsightly Death of Herod
4 BC King Herod fell ill with a fever, became covered in a rash, and suffered from inflammation of the abdominal cavity. Herod's genitals rotted. Before his death, convulsions became more frequent and Herod found it difficult to breathe. During his death throes, many worms swarmed in Herod’s body, as evidenced by the court doctors.
The death of his grandson Herod Agrippa in 44 was surprisingly similar: abdominal pain, worms. This happened shortly after he put the Apostle Peter in prison.
Crucified upside down
64 – 67 years. The Apostle Peter was crucified on an inverted cross, upside down, because he considered himself unworthy to die like Christ.
Brutal death by shells
415 The world has too often been cruel to extraordinary women. The Greek mathematician and philosopher Hepatia was killed by a mob who skinned her alive with sharp shells. All that was left of the unfortunate woman was burned at the stake.
The King "who drank himself to death"
771 The King of Sweden, Adolf Fredrik, died of indigestion. For lunch he ate crayfish, caviar, sauerkraut, smoked herring, and drank a lot of champagne. He ate all this with his usual dessert of 14 servings of sweet pie with hot milk. In Sweden they still call him “the king who drank himself to death.”
Death of an Explorer
1928 Doctor Alexander Bogdanov died after one of his experiments in which the blood of students suffering from malaria and tuberculosis was transfused to him.
1911 Jack Daniel, the founder of Jack Daniel whiskey, died of blood poisoning, six years after he injured his leg when he kicked it in anger over forgetting the combination to a safe.
1916 Grigory Rasputin drowned in a hole under the ice. Although the details of his murder are disputed, he was allegedly drowned in an ice hole after being poisoned with prussic acid, beaten, mutilated, and suffering several gunshot wounds to the head, lungs, and liver. Strange, but he died precisely because he suffocated under water.
1927 Parry-Thomas, an English racing driver, was decapitated by a chain that flew off his own car. He was trying to beat his own record from last year. Even though he was already dead, he still managed to set a new record of 171 miles per hour!
1943 Critic Alexander Woolcott died of a heart attack while discussing Adolf Hitler.
Death is a natural process in the life of every person. Everything has a beginning and an end, so does human life, but the end can come completely unexpectedly, not from old age or illness, but because of an accident or other strange circumstances! This is what we will talk about in this article. The strangest deaths of people that have happened in the world. Even a brick falling out of nowhere may seem like a very logical outcome, compared to the deaths we are about to tell you about. These ridiculous deaths may not qualify as Internet Darwin Awards, which are awarded for curious deaths, but they do have the absurdity of them, so let's take a look at them.
Ridiculous deaths in the world. Top 10
1. A man and his lawnmower.
A tragic story took place in southern Sweden. A forty-year-old farmer was working on his plot, where he was leveling the lawn using a gasoline lawn mower. Apparently, the man drove the machine up a hill, but couldn’t get down from it; he turned over and fell off the lawnmower! A lawn cutting machine drove straight towards him, cutting the farmer's body apart with its sharp grass blades.
2. Shot himself for training.
A strange death occurred in 2013 at one of the firearms shooting ranges. Brian J. Parry committed suicide with a gunshot to the head. Dozens of people, including children, observed the suicide's death. Eyewitnesses say that the man was a regular visitor to the shooting range, he was withdrawn and never spoke to anyone.
3. Death during a threesome.
A bizarre death occurred in 2009 when a man died of a heart attack during a threesome. But the most interesting thing is that his family sued the cardiologist who controlled the man’s health for $3 million. The fact that the man was unfaithful did not even bother his wife, who began to actively sue the medical clinic after his death.
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4. The pastor turned out to be a sinner.
Pastor Mac Wolford, 44, from West Virginia, was bitten by a rattlesnake during an outdoor service in a local park. A man convinced that all Christians should communicate with snakes, pick them up, and if a snake bites a person, then God will not allow him to die from poison and will certainly save him - he made a mistake. Wolford was taken to a local clinic, where he died due to a delay in seeking medical attention.
5. She died because of soup...
One of the most idiotic deaths occurred in Brazil. 88-year-old Ilda Vitor Maciel died in a Rio de Janeiro hospital after receiving an injection of soup through an intravenous tube! A young nurse confused a feeding tube with a package of soup. The daughter of the victim, who was with her mother at that moment, says that at the moment the nurse injected the soup, the mother began to writhe in pain and twitch! The hospital refuses to admit the fact of medical error, and legal proceedings continue to this day.
Finding a dead body is one of the most shocking things a person can ever experience. And yet, depending on the job, a person may examine corpses on a daily basis. Some people feel uneasy about this, but imagine working in a morgue, or experts. These people quickly get used to death.
It is this adaptation to the job that can make a forensic scientist talk about a gruesome murder scene without blinking his eyes or showing any emotion.
However, even when you think that you have seen everything in life, there is something that can still surprise you. In this article, relatives of the “heroes” told us about the strange deaths of their loved ones.
Here are 12 of the strangest deaths.
The man who died of uterine cancer
When 37-year-old Vincent Liv received a kidney transplant in February 2002, doctors did not know the donor had cancer. The donor's cancer was in her uterus, so the doctor told him the disease could not affect it.
But when Liv died in September 2002, cancer specialist Robert Gelfand concluded that he had uterine cancer, even though he had no uterus at all.
20-year-old "football" hernia
While Manic Moxie was working at a funeral home, he encountered a man who had developed a serious inguinal hernia over the course of 20 years.
As a result, at the time the man died, a swelling the size of a soccer ball appeared on his scrotum. The case was so serious that the medical examiner turned to a colleague and simply said, "Hey man, look at this."
3. Light bulb
When the man in this story bled in the emergency room, it appeared to be from a puncture wound. But as doctors treated his wounds, they noticed he was still bleeding from behind.
When they turned him over, they discovered that the attacker had inserted a light bulb into his anus before stabbing him. Removing such an object is especially difficult, and after the procedure, the person died of septic shock.
4. Wine enema
There have been cases in the past where people have died from wine enema, but this was usually the result of acute alcohol poisoning. This deceased did not show signs of alcoholism; he was killed by a red wine enema.
Instead, he bled to death when the enema device punctured his colon.
A person with too much iron.
At first glance, it seems quite simple. A man in his late 50s, after several days of illness, died on his couch. Heart attack, right?
But no one knew that this man actually suffered from hemochromatosis, a rare disease that causes your body to absorb too much iron when you eat. In this man's case, the excess iron destroyed his liver and caused varicose veins in his esophagus. When these veins burst, he began bleeding internally and eventually died.
And all this time, this man probably thought he had a simple stomach upset.
6. Horrible hanging.
It's hard to describe the feeling when you see someone who has died by suicide. However, on rare occasions, the scene can be even more disturbing when you see a severed head.
This phenomenon usually occurs as a result of a long fall with a hard cord. This is exactly what happened in the case of one man who hanged himself from the balcony of his apartment. His body hit the ground. However, the forensic scientist should have asked the man's neighbors if the victim's head was on their balcony?
7. Voltage hazards.
When you have a healthy cardiovascular system and you sit hard on the toilet, it may have some adverse effects, but it won't kill you. However, if you have heart problems, straining can put your heart at risk.
That's what happened to one nursing home resident. A Reddit user describes it clearly: "he pushed too hard, his blood pressure dropped, and that's it..."
8. Welder urine
Even when things go the way they should, welding can be an unhealthy job, as some metals can easily enter the welder's body. But metals in the bladder are a recipe for disaster, as when mixed with urine, the hot metal becomes harmful.
While working under these particular conditions, one welder died when droplets of metal entered his bladder.
9. Toxic Lady
When Gloria Ramirez was dying at Riverside General Hospital, the staff trying to revive her noticed that after they used a defibrillator, her body had developed a strange garlicky odor and an oily sheen. Then, one after another, the medical staff fell ill and many of them fainted. Their illness was apparently caused by exposure to Ramirez's body and blood, hence the name "toxic lady."
There is still some debate as to what caused Ramirez to become so toxic, but the most plausible theory seems to be the use of dimethyl sulfoxide. In the presence of sufficient oxygen, dimethyl sulfoxide becomes dimethyl sulfate, a dangerous nerve gas.
The theory is that attempts to resuscitate Ramirez caused a chemical reaction and changed some of the dimethyl sulfoxides in her body into dimethyl sulfate, which caused the staff to become ill.
Consequences of death near your pet. According to Dr. Caroline Rando, cats and dogs will try to eat their owners 45 minutes after their death if they are alone with them. But in one particularly horrific case, an elderly woman became disabled.
Before she was found, her beloved dog had eaten all of her exposed skin.
11. 30-year-old rifle shot
An alarming spate of mass shootings in recent years shows that guns are deadly, but they don't always kill outright. In fact, sometimes a gunshot wound can wait for decades.
In one such case, a man was treated for a gunshot wound, but a small piece of shrapnel remained in his body. For 30 years he was able to live a normal life, but eventually the shrapnel reached his bloodstream, then his heart, and caused a heart attack.
12. Cobra head
While chef Peng Fan was preparing a rare delicacy, he was bitten by a poisonous Indosinian spitting cobra. This would not be so unusual if Pan had not decapitated the cobra 20 minutes before the bite.
Peng did not know that cobras, like any snake, can continue to move and bite for up to 1 hour, after losing part of the body, including the head. Unfortunately, he was unable to obtain antidotes in time and died.
It didn't sound like that. But it’s one thing to pass away into another world at a ripe old age, in your own home on a soft bed, and quite another thing to die the most terrible death in the prime of your life.
To begin with, we will tell you several stories telling about the most terrible and mystical cases of death in the world.
Two brothers
It’s not for nothing that they say that twins are connected by an invisible thread; they not only feel each other at a distance, but even experience the same feelings at the same moment in time.
Two seventeen-year-old twin brothers from Finland tragically died two hours apart under identical circumstances. They were both motorcyclists, and both of them were hit by trucks while crossing the same road, but at different kilometers.
Burnt out like a match
In the 90s, information began to appear about spontaneous fires in people. Several hundred cases were confirmation that this phenomenon actually exists.
For unknown reasons, people’s bodies ignited and continued to burn until the fire “ate” them completely.
One of the oldest deaths in the world chose, among others, the American Henry Thomas. He was watching TV, sitting in a chair, when the flames suddenly engulfed him. No things in the house, and, in fact, the house itself were damaged. But all that was left of Henry’s body was a skull and part of a leg in a shoe.
Killer animals
No, no, these animals are not predators at all. The point here is completely different.
- An Italian farmer lay down to rest on the grass while hunting rabbits. The man put the gun next to him. One small rabbit running by touched the trigger. The gun fired straight at the farmer. He died on the spot.
- A fisherman from South Korea gutted the fish he caught to put it up for sale. He raised the knife over the large fish, but it turned out to be alive and unexpectedly swung its tail, touching the knife. It fell out of the fisherman’s hands and hit him directly in the chest, leaving not even the slightest chance of salvation.
The reasons for these absurd and some of the most terrible cases of death are the banal carelessness of people.
Death in the Shadows
Two elderly Italians argued for a long time about which of them would take a place in the shade of a palm tree. The old man who won the argument did not even have time to properly enjoy his victory; the tree fell on him and crushed him to death.
Suicide
- In the Vietnamese city of Hischim, 50 onlookers gathered on a small bridge to watch a young girl attempt suicide. The bridge could not bear the load and fell. 9 people died. A girl who tried to commit suicide was saved.
- An equally tragic incident occurred in Prague. A woman who believed rumors about her husband’s infidelity decided to take her own life. She stepped from the balcony of her apartment on the 3rd floor and fell directly on the head of her husband, who was returning home. The man died, and his wife regained consciousness in the hospital.
Justice
- A New York man, who was hit by a car but did not receive any injuries, decided to take advantage of the situation and lie under the car, pretending to be injured. As soon as he was under the car again, it moved and ran over the crook, crushing him to death.
- A resident of Bonn wanted to rob the local Art Museum. Having caught the eye of the guards, he started to run. Turning the corner, I came across one of the exhibits called “Instrument of Justice.” The meter-long sword pierced through the failed thief.
The worst celebrity deaths
No one is safe from sudden departure to another world. Very often you hear about the death of your favorite star, especially if there are a lot of idols.
Maybe you have already heard about these most terrible deaths of people known throughout the world.
Bruce and Brandon Lee
The famous actor died right on the set. The official version is an allergy to the painkiller that Bruce was injected so that he could continue filming. However, some argue that Bruce Lee was dealt a fatal blow by a delayed action, which was owned by some representatives of the Chinese mafia (there was evidence that in his youth the actor had enemies from that environment). It is also surprising that the film on the set of which the actor died was called “Games of Death.”
Brandon Lee repeated the fate of his famous father and also died on the set, but under different circumstances. The actor starred in the film "The Raven". In the final scene, his character is killed. The take was filmed, but even after the director reported that the scene had been successfully filmed, Brandon continued to lie dead. The assistants who came to the rescue saw that the actor was actually bleeding. He died in hospital 12 hours later.
Isadora Duncan and her children
The famous American dancer died in a very strange and absurd way. Shortly before her death, a strange woman came into her room in Vienna, where the dancer was on tour, and said that she had been sent by God to strangle Isadora. It later turned out that this woman was mentally ill. However, God's plans were destined to come true. Isadora actually died from suffocation and a broken neck when her beloved long red scarf got caught on the axle of the car she was getting into. The car moved, the scarf got wrapped around the wheel, and Isadora died tragically.
14 years before her own death, Isadora lost two children. She went to Paris on business, and sent the children with a driver to Versailles, where she then lived with her family. On the way, the car stalled, the driver came out to see what was wrong, and the car rolled straight into the river. The babies could not be saved. The worst deaths in the world are the deaths of your own children. Isadora could not find peace until the end of her life.
Jack Daniel
American Jack Daniel, the creator of the famous Jack Daniel’s whiskey, died for a long time and painfully from sepsis. He received blood poisoning as a result of numerous kicks against a safe, the code for which he could not remember. By the way, it was his famous whiskey that was kept in the safe. If Jack did manage to open it, he could treat his finger with his own product and prevent it from getting infected. Alas and ah.
The worst deaths: top 8
A person does not always die under mystical or mysterious circumstances. We present to your attention the 8 most terrible causes of death, which, according to doctors, are the most painful:
- Hunger. A person can live without food for about two months. However, after 10 days of fasting there is no strength left at all. The body begins to suck nutrients and energy from fat. The liver begins to function incorrectly, releasing toxic substances that eventually kill the person.
- Shipwreck. During a shipwreck, a person faces not only the danger of drowning, starvation or hypothermia. Even if you manage to survive, loneliness in the middle of the ocean can drive you crazy. And the threat of shark attacks doesn’t leave you alone for a minute. Dehydration leads to painful death. Some, in the hope of salvation, begin to drink sea water, but it only increases the water deficit in the body, because salt draws out all the remaining fluid from organs and tissues.
- Falling into a volcano. It is, of course, very difficult to get into the mouth of a volcano, however, if there are such daredevils, a painful and most terrible death awaits them. The top layer of lava is not so hot, but when immersed deeper into it, the human body will burn for several minutes.
- Sacrifice. One of the most terrible deaths for people is death in the process of sacrifice. If several centuries ago this was the norm in some societies, then in today’s civilized countries this crime is committed only within the framework of sects, the very act of falling into which is already like death, because a person “falls out” of life and renounces everyone, including myself.
- Plane crash. The worst deaths in the world are deaths in confined spaces. When the plane begins to fall, all passengers are overcome not only by a feeling of panic. The rapid approach of the aircraft to the ground leads to loss of consciousness for a couple of minutes due to lack of oxygen. When a person wakes up, the speed of the falling plane will be prohibitively high, and he will have no more than a few minutes to live...
- Predator attack. Tigers and lions kill their prey immediately, so it does not have to suffer for long. But hyenas and jaguars eat prey while it is still alive, starting from the legs.
- Frostbite. Low temperature has a very insidious effect on the human body. First, the muscles begin to tremble from lack of heat. Then, as a result of too active trembling, they rupture and the ability to move is lost. Attempts to crawl on the ground lead to nothing. The body temperature continues to fall, and faster than the internal organs freeze. The functioning of the brain is disrupted, the person is no longer able to understand whether he is alive or dead.
- Shame.“Burn with shame,” everyone has heard this expression, but no one thought that one could actually “burn” from this feeling. High levels of anxiety and stress due to some action or event can lead to cardiac arrest. Prolonged soul-searching slowly develops into self-destruction and possible suicide.
I would like to think that the most terrible deaths in human history occurred only in times when the death penalty was not only the only method of justice, but was also carried out publicly. In fact, the insidious “old woman with a scythe” is lurking today at literally every step, and it is not yet a fact that life today is safer than several centuries ago. The worst thing about death is the unknown: no one knows at what moment it will creep up and what will happen after.
In small, quiet towns where everyone knows everyone, news travels fast. It’s the same in Lena’s hometown - everyone knows everything instantly. For example, about a series of mysterious and terrible deaths of girls.
Lena was nervous. Since a wave of terrible and incomprehensible deaths swept through the city, the authorities imposed a curfew and recommended that girls not walk alone on the evening streets. She wouldn’t have gone, she would have stayed overnight at work as her partner. But her sick sister is waiting for her at home. It’s been three days since Lena’s twin Ira came down with a fever.
The girl heard footsteps behind her, and she froze, looking around in fear. My heart was pounding, skipping beats every now and then. She remembered that all the dead girls were twenty-three years old and they were all brown-haired. Well, there's nothing she can do about age, but tomorrow she'll dye her hair brunette. Just for your own peace of mind.
The girl stopped at a fork. Which way to choose? The shorter one through the park or the longer one that runs along the street filled with small, now closed shops? Both there and there it was dark and quiet. It was ten in the evening, the streets were still in twilight, but people were already hiding in their homes, behind closed doors. Finally deciding, she hurriedly ran through the park.
The deaths had been occurring for three months. No time system, no logic. They were united only by the age and hair color of the girls. And the fact that no one could say why they died and how. They were found in strange positions, with broken nails, wide-open, horror-filled eyes and white hair. But they died differently. Some were pronounced dead from suffocation: as if they had been placed in a closed room, deprived of air. Others died before they could suffocate from a heart attack.
Suddenly Lena stopped. She herself did not understand what made her do this. Breathing spasmodically, the girl looked around. A little to the side, under a tall tree, stood a figure. She had no arms, legs... Only a black robe against the background of a gray landscape. Lena wanted to run, but she seemed paralyzed with horror. "Who are you?" - The voice trembled, the words were almost unintelligible. Finally, the paralysis passed and the girl tried to run, but ran into some kind of obstacle. Feeling the invisible walls narrowing, Lena began to struggle in horror, scratching the smooth surface and breaking her nails. Her lips were begging for something, but she didn’t know what or who.
I wanted to live. But she understood that nothing could save her. That in a few minutes her death will join the ranks of these strange and mysterious deaths. And from the realization of this, Lena froze. This is the end. The girl quietly sank to the ground, hugging her knees and closing her eyes. She remembered her sister and how much she loved her. But they were left completely alone in this world. And now Ira will have no one. Tears flowed down my cheeks in streams and soaked into the thick fabric of my jeans. Remembering her sister’s radiant smile, Lena smiled too. Ira has always been like the sun. But only the twin could make Lena laugh. The girl felt that air, like space, was becoming less and less. She won't be afraid. She will think about good things. “Sister, I love you so much. I will always be there. Everything will always be fine with you. I will not let anyone hurt you. Always. I will always be with you,” the girl whispered, smiling through her tears and taking her last breath.
In the morning, another dead girl was found in the park. But it was this death that caused the most noise. Unlike the others, she sat calmly, clasping her legs with her arms and pressing her cheek to her knees. There was a subtle smile on her lips, as if the girl was dreaming about something. The eyes were closed, and the hair retained its natural brown color.
What was even stranger was that when the police came to the girl’s home to inform her sister about her death, the twin, an exact copy of the deceased, already knew about everything. The girl opened the door with tears in her eyes and a smile on her lips. She answered all questions and condolences: “Lena has not gone anywhere. She will always be there. She will always be here,” and the girl pressed her thin palm to her heart.
