When the Grim Reaper calls, will you be carving a holiday turkey or setting off Fourth of July fireworks? Or will the evanescence of your days be marked by the brief spasm of cherry blossoms in bloom?
In other words, what time of year are you most likely to die?
You’d think an inquiry on this subject would begin with Missouri’s third-most famous poet, T.S. Eliot, who called April the cruelest month. Or we could start with famed oath-slinger Hippocrates and his 400 B.C. observations on sickness and the seasons. But we have a source that tops them both: Reader Laurie Schwede from Silver Spring, Md. She sent us a theory.
