Theos-Talk Archives (March 2002 Message tt00167)

Bri wrote, "Events involving massive deaths in a fairly small area such as
earthquakes or genocide are particularly difficult to explain in terms of
just punishments and rewards. It is farfetched, to put it very mildly, to
suppose that all the people who perished in Lisbon or
all the Jews murdered by the Nazis deserved exactly the same treatment.
Common sense rebels against this notion especially if we have concrete
knowledge of the enormous differences between different members of these
groups."

It makes sense if you assume that most people deserve at least one
death. This is a reasonable assumption, because we were less advanced in
previous lives, and therefore would have a karmic backlog that cannot be met
in one lifetime. This event is a way to pay off part of their karma, and
those who need to be there will. There may be others who intended to be at
the location, but unexpectedly had to be elsewhere, or who were saved in
seemingly miraculous ways. For them, there was no karmic or developmental
purpose for dying in this manner.

We all die, and such a death may not even have karmic implications.
Maybe someone has completed his life work, or needs to reincarnate into
another situation.