Can We Cheat Death?

Can we cheat Death?

My mother once said that when man plans tomorrow, he never plans to die and at the end of the road, death is the only phenomena in life that we are absolutely certain will occur.  So can we cheat death? Can any man outwit nature? Does anyone know how to outfox destiny? Can we postpone our time when death calls our number up?

The Story

Even before I watched the Final destination sequels, my grandmother told me a story when I was a child about a man who Death was out to get him because his name was at the top of the list; which is Death’s list. Death arrived at his house on the night of his demise. My grandmother said that Death was tired because he had a long day at the wars in Vietnam and needed to rest. The man saw Death’s Fatigue and offered to give him food and a place of rest for the night.  The man waited until Death was comfortably asleep when he decided to take a peek at Death’s List. The man saw his name at the top of the list and knew that he was the next one to die. The man decided to take an eraser and remove his name from the top of the list to the bottom. 

Death woke up the next morning and peered at the man asleep on the bed and a wave of pity came over him.  He mused how the man was good to him and was a good human being over all. Death grabbed his list and clutched it to his heart without even glancing at the names and said towards the ground  “because he is such a good man, I will not start from the top today Hades, today I will begin from the bottom…so take the one from the bottom”

When our number is up…it is up!!!

As a child I thought the story did not end how I expected or wanted it to end. My grandmother said that “when your time comes, it comes and you can’t escape”.  She says that there are no guarantees in life and that many people assumed that because they were good, rich or powerful that Hades will overlook their mortality. She told me that good people die and bad people die. We cannot escape death because it is inevitable.