Do you think you can miss the time you were supposed to die?

Question

I mean...you had a choice, but chose to live..and everything from then on went bad. Do you think this is possible . I remember it happening to some man in the Old Testament.

Answer 1

Well I guess there's never really a specific time chosen for you to die, it just happens when it happens. If you had the choice to live or die & chose to live then things going downhill could be because at the event in which you made that decision you got traumatised and life became a lot more difficult.

Believing in a chosen time of death also depends on religion and superstition, and how much you believe in them.

Answer 2

Yes, and I would always choose to live.  Thanks to medicine and science, many people have escaped an early death.  Although some people may have had bad experiences after recovering, I am sure that many people were happy to extend their time on earth.

j-r

Answer 3

I think fate plays a part in our time here. Sometimes accidents are just that & I do believe that some people were meant to go. I wish I knew who the OT man that escaped death was?-- bethat as it may. This world is full of disease & pollution I think that alot of die because of circumstance. we drank polluted water, we walked on the road at nite in black, we atr food that was not good for us & had a heart attack----. I think after all there are alot more ways to die today than there was. I would like to go in my sleep or anywhere as long as it was instant.

Answer 4

yes, it happened to my grandfather..first of all, indian astrology is quite accurate.. i've got many stories abt that to tell but i'll just stick to the question here..according to his indian astrology, he was supposed to die at the age of 44 of a heart attack. my grandma prayed and prayed and chanted many indian mantras to prevent his death.. she did that for years.. true enough, when he was 44, he got a heart attack. it was a very severe one. fortunately he didn't die.. later on, after he had healed, they went to see another astrologer thinking the 1st one made a mistake.. he too said my grandfather was not supposed to be alive. around 25 years later, my grandfather got multiple strokes.. he became a vegetable. he stayed on like that for 5 years and died in 2005 of kidney failure.. when we found out his kidney was failing, the doctor was abt to send him to another hospital to save him.. but we stopped the doctor saying that my grandad had suffered enough and it was time for him to go.. also an astrologer said that if he didnt die then, he will die in 2008.. we decided the was no reason to keep him suffering like that..

months later, my psychic aunty got a dream.. he came to pick her up in his car(the one he esed to use) he brought her to this town and showed her around. he showed her where the grocery store and the post office is.. then he brought her to inside this place... there was a long flight of stairs.. and my aunty said there were these different colours.. once we dont see here on earth.. it was a beautiful feeling... my aunty then asked him if she could stay with him there.. he said no.. its not your time yet...

so we think he is happy.

Answer 5

I personally don't believe it can. I think God decides our time to die, so those who have OBE's it just isn't their time to go.

Answer 6

I believe sometimes you can choose. i did, it is a long story, but I was sick several days with a fever that the doctors said should have killed me or cause such brain injury that I would be a vegetable.

During the worst of it, my dead grand father came to take me away, but i refused. We talked 45 minutes but he eventually left without me. the fever began to break right after he left. I believe it was my time to die because he did come to escort me to the other side, but I chose to  stay so the fever broke and I lived.

BB

Edit: Things have been normal since then. I had no side effects. That was in 1987 and I have had good years and bad years. I sometime think maybe I should have gone, but really do not regret it.

Answer 7

Sure I think that people can choose their time, if it comes about or stay and fight.  Sometimes I wonder if everyone really does have a time to go.  Take that woman who was working at The World Trade Center on 9/11, she escaped, but died in that plane crash in Queens 2 months later on her way to her home country.  Did she escape her fate on 9/11?  Or was it a terrible coincidence?

Answer 8

I do not believe in freak accidents.  When it's your time to go, God will find a way, no matter how odd it may seem at the time, to take you home.  I don't live a wild lifestyle but I don't worry about death either.  I might die on my motorcycle or die sitting in my chair at home, God will find me no matter where I'm at!!

Answer 9

no. when you're supposed to die, you die. no one is above death.

Answer 10

I don't know about missing it, per se, but it may be possible to postpone it.  Take for example the story of Alfred Vanderbilt.  He was in England and was set to return to America on the Titanic, but he changed his mind and canceled his tickets at the last minute, but was too late to save his luggage or his personal servant; both went down with the ship.  Three years later he was in America and had to return to Europe, so he booked passage on another vessel.  The voyage of this ship was uneventful until it reached the coast of Ireland, where it was torpedoed by the German U-boat U-20.  The ship, the Lusitania, sank in twenty minutes with a loss of 1,198 lives - including Vanderbilt's, who couldn't swim.