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I'd be very interested in some controlled observation to find out what it really going on (as the article said it could be the cat really detecting impending death somehow or many other things that are just secondary triggers) but I doubt anybody there is much interested and it is just a comforting local phenomenon.
Wouldn't surprise me either way but if it isn't direct detection of deathliness I'd think the most likely altnerative explanation is that these people are close enough to death that human behavior around them is changing in some way that draws the cats attention (if most of them are so far gone they don't know the cat is there I'd expect that death is not a surprise to anybody.
It'd be interesting if the cat did it to someone that everybody thought was otherwise reasonably healthy and then that person croaked. (And to find out how often the cat sleeps somewhere, the person doesn't die, and they just don't remember it.)
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