Can a Lottery Ticket Secure a Future After Tragedy?

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Donald Peters, a 79-year-old retired hat factory worker, passed away from a heart attack on November 1, the same day he purchased two Connecticut Lottery tickets. This act, part of a long-standing tradition with his wife Charlotte, unexpectedly led to financial security for her when she later discovered one ticket was a $10 million winner. In her grief, she almost discarded the ticket before checking the numbers. The situation sparked discussions about irony and coincidence, with references to Alanis Morissette's song "Ironic," highlighting the strange juxtaposition of winning a lottery shortly before his death. The conversation also touched on the nature of luck and the peculiarities of life events.
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On the day that Donald Peters died, he unknowingly provided financial security for his wife of 59 years and their family.
Peters bought two Connecticut Lottery tickets at a local 7-Eleven store on Nov. 1 as part of a 20-year tradition he shared with his wife Charlotte. Later that day, the 79-year-old retired hat factory worker suffered a fatal heart attack while working in his yard in Danbury.

On Friday, his widow cashed in one of the tickets: a $10 million winner which, in her grief over her husband's death, she had put aside and almost discarded before recently checking the numbers.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-01-04-conn-lottery_N.htm
 
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Isn't it ironic ...
 
Some people have all the luck.
 
mgb_phys said:
Isn't it ironic ...

Don't you think?
 
jimmysnyder said:
Some people have all the luck.

Yeah, his wife.
 
mgb_phys said:
Isn't it ironic ...

Its not ironic, its coincidental!
 
Denton said:
Its not ironic, its coincidental!

 
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Buy a lottery ticket to be even of the loss and the income?
 
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mgb_phys said:
Thanks, that's got to be the funniest comedy bit I've heard in a long time.
 
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