If there is such a thing as luck- I know a family that has been spectacularly UNlucky, inexplicably so.

I grew up with the mother, she was the older sister of a schoolfriend of mine. Eventually she grew up, moved to Kansas, married and had a bunch of kids.

Of her kids, three have died, all in accidents. One of her brothers was electrocuted on the job. Another brother died in a car accident.

There are other deaths and tragedies too, although they escape me for the moment.

During the years all this was happening to her and her family, my own family, roughly the same size, had not one death.

Go figure.