d went to check the north bound vehicle. It had a bend in the corner of the front bumper and a broken headlight. The driver was uninjured, and told to stay in his vehicle. The police officer shuffled over to the south bound vehicle. It had a bend in the front bumper, but also had minor damage to the driver’s front fender. The driver, a 29-year-old female, said she was all right, but had a lump on the back of her neck. The police officer checked and could see a noticeable swelling just above her collar. He asked if she had hit her head. She said no, but she had braced herself when she saw the cars were about to collide. When they did, her head whipped forward. She was told to sit still and stay in her car. The officer returned to his car and radioed for an ambulance and a sand truck. He continued to talk to the young woman as they waited for the ambulance, only leaving long enough to wave approaching traffic to slow down. When the ambulance arrived, he alerted the attendants to the fact that the lady had a suspected neck fracture and suggested the use of a backboard and neck brace. At this point, twoA rookie police officer who has been working for more than 40 hours straight, wakes to a bump to discover he is sliding sideways in a police car at 90 miles per hour. He manages to regain control and bring the police car to a safe stop.

A two-month-old fetus miscarries and is ejected from the womb of a healthy 23-year-old woman. A medical practitioner can discover no reason for the miscarriage.

A 17-year-old teenager who is traveling at a high rate of speed loses control of his vehicle. The vehicle enters the ditch where it tumbles end for end seven times then rolls over sideways another nine times before it comes to rest on its undercarriage. The path of destruction it leaves behind consists of a hood, a trunk lid, three car doors, a spare tire, a jack, a tool box and a large assortment of tools as well as four tires and wheels, springs, steering assembly, rear axles and drive shaft. The car itself looks like it has been put in a car crusher. The front and rear of the car are pushed into the body with the motor sitting on top of the transmission and pressed against the front seat. The steering column has punctured the roof of the wreck. The body of the car is crushed to a height of 30 inches from the bottom of the frame to the top of the roof. The driver crawls out with a cut on his forehead that is fixed with a small band-aid.

A healthy six-month-old baby boy lays down for an afternoon nap and never awakens. Cause of death is diagnosed as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). Doctors don’t know what causes it, but it is prevalent enough that they have given it a name.

A private plane is running low on fuel. Inside are a 33-year-old oil executive pilot and a 25-year-old head oil well driller in the passenger seat. They attempt a night landing at a small grass airstrip on the outskirts of a prairie town. In the dark they do not see the power line paralleling the road at the east end of the airstrip. The wheels of the plane catch the top wire of the power line flipping the plane nose first into the ground. The impact buries the nose of the plane into the ground up to the windshield and pushes the motor into the cabin between the two occupants. They both walk into town with minor cuts and bruises.

A healthy 27-year-old woman accompanies her husband to a friend’s funeral. At the service she becomes quite emotional and has to leave. Upon arrival at home she sits down on a pile of pillows on the floor in front of a newly lighted fireplace. Her husband goes into the kitchen to make her a cup of tea. He returns a few minutes later with the tea to find her slumped over on the pillows. He goes to rouse her and to his horror finds her dead. The autopsy reveals that she died of natural causes.

A tired young man is driving back to the city from visiting his fiancee in a small town 80 miles away. He falls asleep at the wheel. When he awakens, he sees a farm tractor on the road about 25 feet in front of him. Coming toward him in the oncoming lane, about 200 feet away, is a large 18 wheeled semitrailer. There is no time or space to stop. A quick flip of the steering wheel to the left and then right and miraculously his car was in front of the tractor and the semitrailer didn’t have to swerve or apply its brakes. The car driver said his car just seemed to lean way over to the left then straighten back up and the tractor was behind him. He further said that everything seemed distorted and blurred and then he was looking at a clear lane in front of him.

A sudden freak shower of freezing rain covered everything in a layer of ice. A police officer, whose car was sitting on an approach to a service station, had just finished scraping the ice off his windshield when he looked up to see a south bound vehicle slowly slide into the north bound lane of the two lane highway he was parked beside. He saw the brake lights of the north bound car come on. He estimated that the speed of both vehicles was between 15 and 20 miles per hour. They hit drivers’ front fender to drivers’ front fender, with a small thump, and then both cars spun around several times and came to rest on the east shoulder of the road about ten feet apart. The police officer pulled his vehicle onto the highway and stopped it in the middle of the road with the emergency lights activated. Upon stepping out of his patrol car, the officer slipped on the ice and fell to his knees. He carefully got back to his feet and went to check the north bound vehicle. It had a bend in the corner of the front bumper and a broken headlight. The driver was uninjured, and told to stay in his vehicle. The police officer shuffled over to the south bound vehicle. It had a bend in the front bumper, but also had minor damage to the driver’s front fender. The driver, a 29-year-old female, said she was all right, but had a lump on the back of her neck. The police officer checked and could see a noticeable swelling just above her collar. He asked if she had hit her head. She said no, but she had braced herself when she saw the cars were about to collide. When they did, her head whipped forward. She was told to sit still and stay in her car. The officer returned to his car and radioed for an ambulance and a sand truck. He continued to talk to the young woman as they waited for the ambulance, only leaving long enough to wave approaching traffic to slow down. When the ambulance arrived, he alerted the attendants to the fact that the lady had a suspected neck fracture and suggested the use of a backboard and neck brace. At this point, two

steering column has punctured the roof of the wreck. The body of the car is crushed to a height of 30 inches from the bottom of the frame to the top of the roof. The driver crawls out with a cut on his forehead that is fixed with a small band-aid.

A healthy six-month-old baby boy lays down for an afternoon nap and never awakens. Cause of death is diagnosed as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). Doctors don’t know what causes it, but it is prevalent enough that they have given it a name.

A private plane is running low on fuel. Inside are a 33-year-old oil executive pilot and a 25-year-old head oil well driller in the passenger seat. They attempt a night landing at a small grass airstrip on the outskirts of a prairie town. In the dark they do not see the power line paralleling the road at the east end of the airstrip. The wheels of the plane catch the top wire of the power line flipping the plane nose first into the ground. The impact buries the nose of the plane into the ground up to the windshield and pushes the motor into the cabin between the two occupants. They both walk into town with minor cuts and bruises.

A healthy 27-year-old woman accompanies her husband to a friend’s funeral. At the service she becomes quite emotional and has to leave. Upon arrival at home she sits down on a pile of pillows on the floor in front of a newly lighted fireplace. Her husband goes into the kitchen to make her a cup of tea. He returns a few minutes later with the tea to find her slumped over on the pillows. He goes to rouse her and to his horror finds her dead. The autopsy reveals that she died of natural causes.

A tired young man is driving back to the city from visiting his fiancee in a small town 80 miles away. He falls asleep at the wheel. When he awakens, he sees a farm tractor on the road about 25 feet in front of him. Coming toward him in the oncoming lane, about 200 feet away, is a large 18 wheeled semitrailer. There is no time or space to stop. A quick flip of the steering wheel to the left and then right and miraculously his car was in front of the tractor and the semitrailer didn’t have to swerve or apply its brakes. The car driver said his car just seemed to lean way over to the left then straighten back up and the tractor was behind him. He further said that everything seemed distorted and blurred and then he was looking at a clear lane in front of him.

A sudden freak shower of freezing rain covered everything in a layer of ice. A police officer, whose car was sitting on an approach to a service station, had just finished scraping the ice off his windshield when he looked up to see a south bound vehicle slowly slide into the north bound lane of the two lane highway he was parked beside. He saw the brake lights of the north bound car come on. He estimated that the speed of both vehicles was between 15 and 20 miles per hour. They hit drivers’ front fender to drivers’ front fender, with a small thump, and then both cars spun around several times and came to rest on the east shoulder of the road about ten feet apart. The police officer pulled his vehicle onto the highway and stopped it in the middle of the road with the emergency lights activated. Upon stepping out of his patrol car, the officer slipped on the ice and fell to his knees. He carefully got back to his feet and went to check the north bound vehicle. It had a bend in the corner of the front bumper and a broken headlight. The driver was uninjured, and told to stay in his vehicle. The police officer shuffled over to the south bound vehicle. It had a bend in the front bumper, but also had minor damage to the driver’s front fender. The driver, a 29-year-old female, said she was all right, but had a lump on the back of her neck. The police officer checked and could see a noticeable swelling just above her collar. He asked if she had hit her head. She said no, but she had braced herself when she saw the cars were about to collide. When they did, her head whipped forward. She was told to sit still and stay in her car. The officer returned to his car and radioed for an ambulance and a sand truck. He continued to talk to the young woman as they waited for the ambulance, only leaving long enough to wave approaching traffic to slow down. When the ambulance arrived, he alerted the attendants to the fact that the lady had a suspected neck fracture and suggested the use of a backboard and neck brace. At this point, two

minor cuts and bruises.

A healthy 27-year-old woman accompanies her husband to a friend’s funeral. At the service she becomes quite emotional and has to leave. Upon arrival at home she sits down on a pile of pillows on the floor in front of a newly lighted fireplace. Her husband goes into the kitchen to make her a cup of tea. He returns a few minutes later with the tea to find her slumped over on the pillows. He goes to rouse her and to his horror finds her dead. The autopsy reveals that she died of natural causes.

A tired young man is driving back to the city from visiting his fiancee in a small town 80 miles away. He falls asleep at the wheel. When he awakens, he sees a farm tractor on the road about 25 feet in front of him. Coming toward him in the oncoming lane, about 200 feet away, is a large 18 wheeled semitrailer. There is no time or space to stop. A quick flip of the steering wheel to the left and then right and miraculously his car was in front of the tractor and the semitrailer didn’t have to swerve or apply its brakes. The car driver said his car just seemed to lean way over to the left then straighten back up and the tractor was behind him. He further said that everything seemed distorted and blurred and then he was looking at a clear lane in front of him.

A sudden freak shower of freezing rain covered everything in a layer of ice. A police officer, whose car was sitting on an approach to a service station, had just finished scraping the ice off his windshield when he looked up to see a south bound vehicle slowly slide into the north bound lane of the two lane highway he was parked beside. He saw the brake lights of the north bound car come on. He estimated that the speed of both vehicles was between 15 and 20 miles per hour. They hit drivers’ front fender to drivers’ front fender, with a small thump, and then both cars spun around several times and came to rest on the east shoulder of the road about ten feet apart. The police officer pulled his vehicle onto the highway and stopped it in the middle of the road with the emergency lights activated. Upon stepping out of his patrol car, the officer slipped on the ice and fell to his knees. He carefully got back to his feet and went to check the north bound vehicle. It had a bend in the corner of the front bumper and a broken headlight. The driver was uninjured, and told to stay in his vehicle. The police officer shuffled over to the south bound vehicle. It had a bend in the front bumper, but also had minor damage to the driver’s front fender. The driver, a 29-year-old female, said she was all right, but had a lump on the back of her neck. The police officer checked and could see a noticeable swelling just above her collar. He asked if she had hit her head. She said no, but she had braced herself when she saw the cars were about to collide. When they did, her head whipped forward. She was told to sit still and stay in her car. The officer returned to his car and radioed for an ambulance and a sand truck. He continued to talk to the young woman as they waited for the ambulance, only leaving long enough to wave approaching traffic to slow down. When the ambulance arrived, he alerted the attendants to the fact that the lady had a suspected neck fracture and suggested the use of a backboard and neck brace. At this point, two

the left then straighten back up and the tractor was behind him. He further said that everything seemed distorted and blurred and then he was looking at a clear lane in front of him.

A sudden freak shower of freezing rain covered everything in a layer of ice. A police officer, whose car was sitting on an approach to a service station, had just finished scraping the ice off his windshield when he looked up to see a south bound vehicle slowly slide into the north bound lane of the two lane highway he was parked beside. He saw the brake lights of the north bound car come on. He estimated that the speed of both vehicles was between 15 and 20 miles per hour. They hit drivers’ front fender to drivers’ front fender, with a small thump, and then both cars spun around several times and came to rest on the east shoulder of the road about ten feet apart. The police officer pulled his vehicle onto the highway and stopped it in the middle of the road with the emergency lights activated. Upon stepping out of his patrol car, the officer slipped on the ice and fell to his knees. He carefully got back to his feet and went to check the north bound vehicle. It had a bend in the corner of the front bumper and a broken headlight. The driver was uninjured, and told to stay in his vehicle. The police officer shuffled over to the south bound vehicle. It had a bend in the front bumper, but also had minor damage to the driver’s front fender. The driver, a 29-year-old female, said she was all right, but had a lump on the back of her neck. The police officer checked and could see a noticeable swelling just above her collar. He asked if she had hit her head. She said no, but she had braced herself when she saw the cars were about to collide. When they did, her head whipped forward. She was told to sit still and stay in her car. The officer returned to his car and radioed for an ambulance and a sand truck. He continued to talk to the young woman as they waited for the ambulance, only leaving long enough to wave approaching traffic to slow down. When the ambulance arrived, he alerted the attendants to the fact that the lady had a suspected neck fracture and suggested the use of a backboard and neck brace. At this point, two

d went to check the north bound vehicle. It had a bend in the corner of the front bumper and a broken headlight. The driver was uninjured, and told to stay in his vehicle. The police officer shuffled over to the south bound vehicle. It had a bend in the front bumper, but also had minor damage to the driver’s front fender. The driver, a 29-year-old female, said she was all right, but had a lump on the back of her neck. The police officer checked and could see a noticeable swelling just above her collar. He asked if she had hit her head. She said no, but she had braced herself when she saw the cars were about to collide. When they did, her head whipped forward. She was told to sit still and stay in her car. The officer returned to his car and radioed for an ambulance and a sand truck. He continued to talk to the young woman as they waited for the ambulance, only leaving long enough to wave approaching traffic to slow down. When the ambulance arrived, he alerted the attendants to the fact that the lady had a suspected neck fracture and suggested the use of a backboard and neck brace. At this point, two more vehicles slid into the ditch and he left to check on their occupants. Everyone was uninjured, but tow trucks were required to get them out of the snow-filled ditch. About an hour later, when all the vehicles in the ditch had been towed out and the lady’s car had been towed to the impounded lot for safekeeping, he called the dispatcher to advise that he was going to go to the hospital to interview the female driver. He was told not to bother as she was dead on arrival at the hospital.

By now, you are probably wondering what these survival/death stories are all about. They are being presented to you to prove a theory.

The theory states that at the moment of conception, each soon to be life is assigned a specific amount of time to be here on earth. Nothing else explains why some people live to be more than 100 years old and others die at an early age.

Scientists and medical specialists point to statistics and say that they prove that so many out of one thousand people will catch this disease or that disease or die of this kind of accident or that kind of accident or be murdered or suffer some other deadly fate.

They may be right, but they still can’t explain why apparently healthy people suddenly suffer massive life ending heart attacks or strokes when there is nothing in their physiology suggesting that they had any sign of disease in their body. They also can’t explain why a hard-working male who smoked and drank liquor lived to be 104 years old. Or why a healthy young runner had his heart explode in mid-stride.

They can’t explain why a young man who was diagnosed with cancer and had operations to remove parts of his intestines could leave the hospital, go home, father a child, get sick again, return to the hospital, have more operations to remove pieces of internal organs over and over. When he finally died, he had no bowel, about six feet of intestines, only a small portion of his stomach and no spleen. He had fathered nine children and the oldest was nearly 19 years old. The only explanation they could give was, “He had a strong will to live.”

When asked about the healthy two-year-old girl that had died in her sleep and had just been subjected to a full autopsy, they could only conclude that she must have died of something that hasn’t been discovered yet.

When asked about the theory, they just said, “We don’t talk about that sort of thing.”

What do you think? Was your time here set when you were conceived?

If it was, then you must work hard on fulfilling your goals and dreams as quickly as possible. “Why” you ask? Because tomorrow, you will be one day closer to not being here and you can never get that time back. Every minute is precious. Don’t waste a second of them!