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This question of having control over death is difficult to answer. There are some positively great arguments when it comes to either side. Despite good arguments on the side of choice, death is most certainly decided by fate.

As a human race we feel an extreme need to control our lives. Those that fear death will perhaps lean towards the "choice" option. Perhaps these people feel that they have more control over their lives this way. This is unfortunately the grandest illusion of them all. Death is not something we can control.

The idea of death and the physical reality of it are to big for our minds to grasp. Admitting that we as humans have no control over death means admitting that in the grand scheme of things are are small.

Death is an unexplained phenomena. What does this mean exactly? Death disregards the amount of money in a bank account, does not care about your social standing, nor that you are a wife or a single man. It does not care what faith you follow, what kind of car you drive or what your sexual orientation is. It does not discriminate. It is a certainty of life and there is no guarantee of old age.

It is impossible to explain why some people die when they should have lived, while others live when they should have died. Point in case, a suicide. To choose suicide is to attempt control. Not all suicides succeed. A discovered attempt at just the right moment and that person lives another day, despite the fact that they so clearly wanted to die. Their attempt to control death was overridden by fate, obviously not their time to die.

Another example, the father of a classmate keeled over from a heart attack. He was a prominent lawyer, nice family, early fifties. He was out running when he died. What about the young hockey player who has a heart attack on the ice and dies.

On the opposite side, what about a cancer survivor or a car crash victim, or the lone survivor of a plane crash.

The only part of our lives that we can control is our day to day living. Choose to treat everyone with compassion and love, choose to love your children, your spouse, your parents. Choose to be a decent human being.

Death is not something that can be cheated or controlled. It is an inevitable bit of truth to our lives. We all must die. As a human race we make countless attempts to control our end, to do it on our own terms. Unfortunately, death is an issue that is truly out of our hands. Fate is the deciding factor, the entity that decides for all of us.

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