Here’s why it doesn’t make sense to think it’s some karmic thing we don’t understand: Every one of YOUR three people was known by many, maybe hundreds, maybe more other people. But not the same numbers of other people. So YOUR “third” death is someone else’s first, second, or third–or fourth, fifth, sixth. So that karmic “force” would have to somehow rearrange deaths to make everyone, knowing all different but overlapping sets of people, experience them in sets of three.
Which, I’ll argue, is virtually impossible.
So yeah, by any way you look at it,science or just plain logical possibilities, it doesn’t (can’t) make sense. It’s, as @Nrdsb4 says, confirmation bias. Which is very human. We ALL do that in some way or another (see Mercury in Retrograde I referenced above. ).
No, it’s not hooey, but the impact you mention might have just as easily affected one person (leading to a total of two deaths) or three (leading to a total of four deaths), rather than two.
Your post illustrates the physical effects of stress and grief, which have been studied and affirmed by research. What it doesn’t do, however, is offer proof of the general statement that deaths come in threes. Yes, deaths sometimes do come in threes, but more often come singularly, or in pairs, or in no discernible pattern whatsoever.
There is research that shows a long-term spouse may die within months after the first to die. If not, the survivor may live many more years.
The broken heart syndrome was first reported in Japan, where the loved ones of someone who just died have sudden cardiac symptoms but when given supportive treatment those loved ones generally go on to fully recover and show no cardiac problems. I attended a lecture about it and found it fascinating.
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