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Originally Posted by Villages PL
Over the years, I have heard many people say something to the effect that when your time comes, well, it's just your time. Everyone has to go sometime. One woman told me that her lifestyle wouldn't make any difference because her days were numbered from when she was conceived or born. Others have said when the man upstairs wants you, he will come and get you.
How does that square with the concept of personal responsibility and free will? If a person does something that contributes to their own demise, did that person die a premature death do to their own neglect, or was it just inevitably their time to go?
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I don't think it is one or the other, but some of both. We have responsibility to and will account for taking good care of our bodily, mental and spiritual health.
When people say "it was his time to go" or "everybody has to go sometime", I think it means we're saying
we can't control the mode of bodily death we'll have......whether by earthquake, hurricane, tornado, car accident, terrorist attack, or (fortunately) sudden death in one's sleep after being in prior good health.