Can a Lottery Ticket Secure a Future After Tragedy?

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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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Some people have all the luck.
 
jimmysnyder said:
Some people have all the luck.

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

Its not ironic, its coincidental!
 
Buy a lottery ticket to be even of the loss and the income?