I am one hundred percent sure that some people in some incomprehensible way have a premonition of the date of their death. I will prove this with two examples from the life of our family.
My father-in-law Semyon Ivanovich from the first day of our acquaintance was categorically against his son marrying me. He didn't like everything about me. The father-in-law did not consider it necessary to communicate with me and did not even say hello when he called his son on the phone and I answered the phone. Over the long years of marriage, I have heard very few words from Semyon Ivanovich. These were mostly criticisms of my concoction.
Late in the evening on February 1, 2007, when everyone was already asleep at home, and I was finishing my work report, the phone rang. I picked up the phone. As usual, the father-in-law said without greeting:
- Marina, I'm talking to you. Don't call your son. In two weeks I will die … - and expressed several wishes about the organization of my funeral, expressing confidence that I will do everything as it should be.
It was his longest speech to me in his entire life. I was surprised, to say the least. After hanging up the phone, I woke up my husband and told about Semyon Ivanovich's request. It was all the more strange because just two weeks later, on February 14, we were preparing to celebrate his 85th birthday.
Semyon Ivanovich, despite his advanced age, was physically a very strong person, led a healthy lifestyle, never abused alcohol, did not smoke. I preferred herbal preparations to all pills. Every summer, until late autumn, he spent in his homeland, in one of the villages of the Rostov region, where he collected medicinal herbs.
When he was 70 years old, at the cemetery at his wife's grave, he met a woman who came to her husband's grave. She moved in with him, and they lived together in recent years.
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In general, nothing foreshadowed trouble. Semyon Ivanovich was not a mystic or alarmist. The Great Patriotic War remained behind him.
His courage and valor are confirmed by numerous orders and medals. Despite his dislike for me, I treated this man with deep respect.
Semyon Ivanovich's words so deeply sank into my soul that in the morning I warned my boss that, perhaps, in two weeks I would have to take a leave for family reasons.
And what do you think? After 10 days, the father-in-law fell ill - his leg was very painful. And on February 14, he was gone - a fragment left from the war moved. Father-in-law died during an operation - doctors tried to save his leg.
On the first night after my father-in-law's death, at about three o'clock in the morning, a phone call rang at our house. I went to the phone … and heard the voice of Semyon Ivanovich. He asked me clearly:
- Marina, where are my clothes? I do not see her.
I was not afraid, although I understood that my father-in-law was dead. I calmly explained to him that the body from the hospital had already been taken to the morgue. My husband and I took the clothes from his apartment. I stroked it and laid it out on paper on the floor so that it would not wrinkle, tomorrow morning we will take it to the morgue. In response, I heard:
- Good. Got it. Thank.
When I hung up, I saw that my husband, son and my mother were standing nearby. Only then did I understand what had happened, and I became scared.
Two and a half years have passed. On the evening of December 15, my mother told me:
“I’ll die in two days. It is a pity that I did not have time to put the documents in order, you will have to run around the authorities.
Mom was 69 years old, and she did not suffer from chronic diseases. She died two days later on the operating table - she was diagnosed with a stomach ulcer. The hospital could not make a diagnosis for a long time and wasted time.
The day after my mother's death, my husband and I, returning home late at night, met a neighbor. She said:
- I saw your mother in a dream today, I ask her: "How are you there?" She replies: “I'm fine. My guys did their best. Tomorrow they will dig the grave, and the commemoration next to the house."
These were just two questions that we had not yet resolved at that time. Frost shackled the earth so that even professional gravediggers scratched their heads. It seemed that they themselves did not know whether they would be able to dig a grave or not. As for the commemoration, everything was also complicated. Then New Year's corporate parties were already in vogue, for which they rented cafes and restaurants. Therefore, on December 17 we were given a turn from the gate everywhere.
But the neighbor predicted everything correctly: the grave was dug without any problems, and for the commemoration they managed to rent the banquet hall of the restaurant located next to the house.
Marina Lvovna GORBATENKO, Tula