Oscar the cat prowls the halls at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, Rhode Island. Oscar comforts patients but seems to have an uncanny ability to sense when death is near, often curling up to patients during their final hours of life. Comments our friend Jason, “I don’t know what’s more disturbing: the fact that it’s really true that cats are soul suckers, or that this one’s wondering around a nursing home sucking souls at will and this news item takes the approach that it’s cute and wonderful that the cat is the “harbinger of death.” Oh yeah, the phrase “harbinger of death” is actually used, like it’s a good thing.” (Source; photo: Stew Milne/AP)