I've always wondered that myself.

They don't die in threes, they just die. there are billions of people in the world and hundreds of thousands die everyday. Everyone thinks that because three people they know die about the same time, that they die in threes. or three big celebrities die in the same month. it don't mean a thing. other people know different people, do you think they have three people they know die in threes. then you might know that person and you both know the same person that died, but they know two people you didn't that died and you know two people they do that died. does this make sense. it's just stupid.

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They don't die in threes, they just die. there are billions of people in the world and hundreds of thousands die everyday. Everyone thinks that because three people they know die about the same time, that they die in threes. or three big celebrities die in the same month. it don't mean a thing. other people know different people, do you think they have three people they know die in threes. then you might know that person and you both know the same person that died, but they know two people you didn't that died and you know two people they do that died. does this make sense. it's just stupid.

SORRY I KNOW U R Tring to be nice and practable but ..NO THEY DIEIN 3s have u lived here long ? If u have then its just odd,,talk to some one.

I agree with Mythbuster on this one. The reason they die in threes is because after the third death in an area, people say "well that's 3" and start the count all over again. I personally know 4 people who died in last 2 months. Also find it funny that it doesn't seem to matter to ppl how far apart the 3 are spread....1 week to 1 year...they will still stop at 3 and start counting again.

Qoute.....I love that whole phenomena. Or, more properly, pseudo-phenomena. It tells us so much about ourselves. It illustrates what we are up against in trying to craft a rational human society, and it does so without trespassing onto an area of actual importance with a constituency. So it can - I hope - be discussed without rancor.

Famous people die like regular people die: as individuals, and less often in groups, in a random distribution. As anyone who has tried to buy life insurance knows, the odds of dying are based on your health (hence, the physical exam for life insurance), your family history, and your age. But as to the timing of each person's death - for most of our lives we don't know when Atropos will snip our thread.

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But when it comes to famous people we don't see it that way. Probably based on the older idea that "bad things happen in threes", we have the newer pop-cultural paradigm that "famous people die in threes". We see examples that support this idea as we live our daily lives.

With Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett dying on the same day, the idea that famous people die in threes is back in play. Of course it was Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. Unless it was Sky Saxon, Farrah Fawcett, and Michael Jackson, who all died on the same day. Or it could be Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, and the next really famous person to die. All of them prove the rule, right? We simply stretch the definition of "famous" and the time frame to make it fit the famous-people-die-in-threes rule.

The actual phenomena is confirmation bias. We have an idea in our heads and everything we see tends to prove it. Except if it doesn't, and then we ignore it.

Sorry, meant to type QUOTE..not qoute!!

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Sorry, meant to type QUOTE..not qoute!!

U MAYBE RIGHT ,,I guess it just freeks us out ,

Maybe ppl think it happends in 3s dt the father. the son. and the holy ghost