Woah. When you gotta go, you gotta go...

[MorningGlow]

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[BlueIris]

1. I was just coming here to see if anyone had caught that.

That's messed up.

[get the red out]

2. Saw that too

Very bizarre, or maybe not. :wow:

[Cleita]

3. A friend of mine always says that when it's your time there is no

way of dodging that bullet. She also made the same observation about my step daughter, who lived through a car accident that should have killed her. (We were all very grateful she didn't die). However, she was laid up for months mending and recuperating. So my friend said, it just wasn't her time. There is always something so karmic with how people leave this earthly existence. None of us really know when and how we are going to make our final exit.

[Shallah Kali]

6. I once read that people set up several potential end points in their lives prebirth

that makes sense to me. If things are going well they don't go or if they accomplished all they can with the situations in their life they leave. Just in case and in an attempt to avert a potentially painful or very bad illness as check out points I told my guides I want to cancel them all and want to consciously choose to leave my body behind! Maybe have a party hug and kiss everyone good bye, see you next lifetime, might come back to haunt you a few times then just pop out. Much better than the majority of endings in past lives recalled!

[lildreamer316]

7. I read this same thing.

And I believe that my fiance that passed had done so, because he always told me he was going to die before he hit 21 (we started dating when he was 19). I think because I wanted to be with him so much, he decided not to go then..but when he realized I had made a turning point in my life and could be on my own, he left (age 27).

[MorningGlow]

8. Some paths are more important than others, though

Some people feel it as a strong sense of destiny--that they have to follow a particular life path, which includes a set death date--but even so it's their prerogative not to take that path and do something completely different with their lives, which includes a different death date (sometimes).

My uncle who was suffering with prostate cancer (see post downthread) was supposed to pass much earlier than he actually did, but as with LD's experience, my aunt wanted him to stay alive so much that he kept putting it off. Only when she finally told him that he could go did he choose to die.

[Kind of Blue]

4. The most disturbing that I've

read twice in my life in the newspapers are of people who die in plane or car crashes on their way to a relatives funeral. I can never wrap my mind around that kind of karma. :eyes: Very unsettling.

[MorningGlow]

5. I just see it as part of a soul agreement

or a task completed. Kind of like this incident:

A number of years ago a young girl (late teens, early 20s) crashed her car on a rural road in my area. A man came across the accident, called for help, and stayed with her until the ambulance and police arrived. She was taken to the hospital, and although she was seriously injured, she survived, thanks in no small part to the man who got help--if he hadn't come along she would have died on the deserted road. The man, who apparently felt an unusual connection to her, decided to visit her in the hospital the next day or the day after. On his way there, he was in a car accident and died.

Now, this could just be passed off as a freaky coincidence, but when I read about the story in the news, I just "knew" that he had come here to help her, and once he did, he was free to go.

I consider the death of the woman who was supposed to be on the Air France flight as another soul agreement--she had planned on leaving with the others who were on that flight, but for some reason didn't make it--perhaps because she had something else she had to take care of before she could leave. But she needs to be with the others for whatever reason, so her spirit found another way to go.

Something else to consider: Twice in my immediate family, people who were related only by marriage died within close proximity of each other, which gave me a glimpse into soul group relationships that I never expected. The first one was my uncle; he suffered for eight years with prostate cancer and died a slow, horrible, lingering death. Two weeks later his brother-in-law (the husband of my uncle's sister), who was hale and hearty, went in for routine surgery. He had a brain aneurysm and died--completely out of the blue. I just "knew" that my uncle and his BIL had plans to travel together the "next time". Likewise, about five years ago my father died after a year fighting stomach cancer. His death wasn't unexpected. Two weeks later, my uncle, his brother-in-law (married to my dad's sister), went in for routine heart surgery and died on the table--completely out of the blue. And again I just "knew" they had plans.

I never boggle at coincidences. Because there aren't any. ;)

[eilen]

9. I try to discourage fatalism

One of my patients has had extremely high blood pressure. As I was trying to impress upon her the importance of going to the clinic, being seen and getting a new prescription (she is out of meds), she tells me "If it's my time, it is my time."

I told her "what if it isn't your time, and you get to spend the rest of it, 2 weeks, 20 years... paralyzed in a nursing home ?"