As a tarot reader, I once got a woman whom I made an ordinary reading, which curiously included that she needed to focus on the future. When I was finished, she demanded to know why I hadn't told her about how death haunted her (those were her words). She then told me her long life story about how her first son died as a child, her older daughter died five years before, and her remaining daughter died on the anniversary of her sister's death, to the day. She had frequent dreams and visions at her home, and lots of so-called mediums (after leeching her cash) gave her messages from her children and assured her that death stalked her each day.
I listened to her, knowing that she had come merely to hear what she wanted to hear, to feed her fears and tragic fantasies... and when she was finished, I told her to get the movie The Mothman Prophecies and watch it as many times as she liked, until she realized why her situation and Richard Gere's plight were alike, and that she faced the same choice that he did at the end of the film. She left straight for Blockbuster, and I really hope she got the message. What else could I do?