Death comes in threes

Question

what do they mean by "Death comes in threes"

Answer 1

It's a Southern supersitition kept alive by the older generations that bad things, espcially death, comes in threes.  Apparently, when someone dies in the family or community, two death follows shortly thereafter.  It might have started from a myth "Three on a Match" started during the First World War.  http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_on_a_Mat...

In the Entertainment community..Bernie Mac, Isaac Hayes (both just this last weekend), and........?

Answer 2

I should know better than to believe in this nonsense, but I kind of do...

With celebrities it seems to be true, anyhow, famous people's deaths seem to come more than one at a time. As a matter of fact this morning I was reading about Isaac Hayes's death and Bernie Mac's and thinking, oh, my, which famous black entertainer will be the third death?

I'm a mature, college-educated person and I still believe in this, I don't know what's wrong with me...!

Answer 3

3 is a spiritual power. The Trinity. But more accuretly it refers to pyramid power. The way the Lifeforce comes from the Source of Life to us. And that is a point at the top, with a square bottom.

Answer 4

"Death comes in threes" is just a eerie supersitition that tells people that once a person dies, so will another and soon there will be another person who passes away which makes it 3.

Freaky, huh?  

Answer 5

They mean that in general, when a person dies it is not unlikely to see two other people die around the time the other people died.  

Answer 6

I have heard this superstition when I worked in a nursing home. Whenever one of the old people died, some of the old hands said that two more will follow.

Obviously, this turned out to be true. One day or one week or one month later, more people died. And the old hands said: "See! There it is again, two more people have died. Death comes in threes." (And when the total was four, they simply said okay it will be six this time)

It is a simple and stupid superstition. You can as well stand on the side of a road and say "cars come in threes". And then, after every third car, point out that you were right again.

Answer 7

It is a superstition that death comes in threes to a family or community, meaning that 3 well-known people, or 3 friends/family members that are close to you all die in a relitively short time period.

i.e. - in the month of April this year - two friends and one of my family members all died.  I was rather expecting the loss of a family member who was suffering from cancer anyway, but right after the two friends, I just knew she would be next because that would make my 3.

Though I usually don't believe in such superstitions.  I've had other people in my life pass away and never was it 3 in a row in such a short time period.