Coincidence, fate, or what?

[funnybone]

I didn't know what to title this thread, but the news story that my sisiter sent me really got me wondering. How ironic is it that something like this happens. What are the chances/odds? How sad and devastating to both the families of the infant and woman.

This paragraph sums it all, but the whole story in on the link in case anyone is interested (from the Toronto Star).

Tree kills camper in cruel twist of fate

Cristina Clayton and her family left Sandbanks Provincial Park near Picton, when they learned a 4-month-old Orangeville boy had been struck by a fallen tree and killed on Sunday. One day later, the Guelph mother herself was killed by a toppled tree at another provincial campsite, writes Curtis Rush.


http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1153260648531&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home

[Dfen911]

When it's your time to go...it's your time go... :(

[badunnin]

I didn't know what to title this thread, but the news story that my sisiter sent me really got me wondering. How ironic is it that something like this happens. What are the chances/odds? How sad and devastating to both the families of the infant and woman.

This paragraph sums it all, but the whole story in on the link in case anyone is interested (from the Toronto Star).

Tree kills camper in cruel twist of fate

Cristina Clayton and her family left Sandbanks Provincial Park near Picton, when they learned a 4-month-old Orangeville boy had been struck by a fallen tree and killed on Sunday. One day later, the Guelph mother herself was killed by a toppled tree at another provincial campsite, writes Curtis Rush.


http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1153260648531&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home

Coincidence. How many other people heard the news that the infant was killed and yet weren't killed themselves?

[Peweh]

Fate... if I inferred right that she WOULDN'T have left the 1st park if she hadn't heard about the 1st death.

[funnybone]

Oh, I believe when it's your time to go - it's time to go. She probably would have died another way had she not left that first park. However, it's just a weird thing - creepy in a way.

[blazedog]

Absolute coincidence - it's as likely to happen as not to happen.

Human species hates to deal with the reality that life is a crap shoot and just wants to read meaning into what are really just random events.

Read some basic math on the laws of chance and predicting outcomes.

[ErinM]

True story...

Last summer, my cousin was going on vacation on a small houseboat for the very first time. For the first part of the week, she was with her friend, the second part of the week her parents were going to join her.

At the beginning of the trip, when they were getting the boat into the water, there was a mishap and water began to fill the car. My cousin managed to escape drowning (narrowly) by getting out of the back window (still not sure how that whole thing happened, but that was the basic result)

Later on in the week, after my aunt and uncle joined her, they were trying to dock the boat on an island. My cousin was in the water guiding the boat, my uncle was driving, my aunt was supervising. Kathy took a step back to guide the boat and went down instead of up due to a sandbar. The boat smashed into her sternum. My aunt and uncle got her back on to the boat, but had to travel one hour on the water before they could get radio contact for someone to come help. She was taken to the hospital and was to be airlifted to a larger hospital, however, she died of her injuries, which were massive internal injuries as well as a abdominal aorta tear.

So, was this coincidence or fate? Did she narrowly escape one death only to have another? Did God have it "in for her" on that trip no matter what?

[Escher]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a3/Final_Destination_movie.jpg/200px-Final_Destination_movie.jpg

Just the odds. But what a crappy way to go.

[cookieee]

True story...

Last summer, my cousin was going on vacation on a small houseboat for the very first time. For the first part of the week, she was with her friend, the second part of the week her parents were going to join her.

At the beginning of the trip, when they were getting the boat into the water, there was a mishap and water began to fill the car. My cousin managed to escape drowning (narrowly) by getting out of the back window (still not sure how that whole thing happened, but that was the basic result)

Later on in the week, after my aunt and uncle joined her, they were trying to dock the boat on an island. My cousin was in the water guiding the boat, my uncle was driving, my aunt was supervising. Kathy took a step back to guide the boat and went down instead of up due to a sandbar. The boat smashed into her sternum. My aunt and uncle got her back on to the boat, but had to travel one hour on the water before they could get radio contact for someone to come help. She was taken to the hospital and was to be airlifted to a larger hospital, however, she died of her injuries, which were massive internal injuries as well as a abdominal aorta tear.

So, was this coincidence or fate? Did she narrowly escape one death only to have another? Did God have it "in for her" on that trip no matter what?

Either way, I am very sorry about the loss of your cousin.

[funnybone]

ErinM - I'm sorry to hear about your cousin. It's sad when anyone dies under tragic circumstances.

Escher - I'll have to check out that movie.

[ErinM]

Yeah, it was pretty tragic. And thanks! :)

But I didn't post this to get sympathy or anything. I truly wonder about this issue myself when I think about what happened to her. The whole story was just so....strange.

[Andrea_2]

I completely agree with badunnin and blazedog.

[funnybone]

Yeah, it was pretty tragic. And thanks! :)

But I didn't post this to get sympathy or anything. I truly wonder about this issue myself when I think about what happened to her. The whole story was just so....strange.

I didn't think you posted for sympathy. I don't dwell on the subject or think about such things often, but when it does happen, it just makes me wonder.