Dying the same death more than once
 

I've come across people who said that in various past lives, they died the same death.

How come ? What would the soul gain from dying the same death life after life ?

IMO, one of the corollaries of the Law of Karma is "You become what you do." So some people live in a way that leads to a similar death in incarnation after incarnation...

I have died a few times by being shot to death in past lives. I suspect its an occupational hazard when one is a soldier in more than one war. Don't know why being shot was the method on so many occasions, since an artillery blast, or stepping on a land mine would have created the same result. I was always told that you die differently in each life, but I think that is simply not true. I am not sure how important the cause of death really is.

Sometimes it can be related to karma. The soul chooses how it wants to die. Maybe you shot someone in a previous life or something like that.

I think it is probably true for me. I feel a distant pull to lead my life in a similar way. Will probably pop my clogs from a heart attack when I am 60. Actually for me this life is different, I died young previously always sub-40.

It can be the effect of karma, which makes life go through the same grooves again and again due to strongly established mental patterns.

The way to transcend karma or mental patterns is through deep self-awareness.

I've been stabbed/impaled in the stomach in several lives I think. In this life I have a big birthmark right where I was and I've always had major stomach issues. I do think it's all related but I have no idea of why. I've yet to figure it out but I have had dreams of that, of those ends.

Maybe that is their Karma...when you have to experience something until you understand the lesson behind this.

It means there are unresolved issues and thr soul has not overcome the challenge....

For e.g. somebody unable to cope with the difficulties of life commits suicide, next life it gets harder and again suicide..
it goes on life after life until in one life he breaks the pattern and face the challenges and live till the natural death comes...

Then starts the next lesson, he may have a relaxed luxurious life with different learnings and tests....

It is almost like a video game where your mario character dies somewhere in the stage and every time you start all over again, but every time you learn how to cross a certain area, next area is almost always harder... however once you have crossed completely that stage/kingdom, then you start next stage relatively fresh and simple and less hard

Couldn't you break the cycle by joining something like Médecins Sans Frontières, or some similar institution that help people on war or any activity related to saving lives instead of taking them? I think this would be far more interesting to deal with such karma than dying by being shot that imho would just create karma for the person shooting you anyway, perpetuating a new cycle for each shooter and not really solving the issue.

As far as I know, if one repeats himself in another life, I mean the bad habits and tendencies, the one is not improving. Hopefully he isn't getting worse, but in a way is somewhat wasting this new chance, each is completely possible thing to happen.

ETA: For instance, I had 2 dreams that came as past lives spontaneous regressions, one where I was in a big war, slashing apparently unknown people in 2 and what not. In a second one I was a slave and could see an uncle from my current life morph into his past life self and how he hated the people that enslaved us. He was trying to convince me hard to hate all of them, to take revenge and turns out they were revealed to be most of my current relatives. I didn't want to, but as the dream progressed and I was shown how badly I was treated I got enraged and walked on my knees hatefully swearing to turn the lives into hell. By then I was completely convinced I'd do as he said. And so I saw a "in between lives" state, where there were people guiding me and explaining things, I realized those people I killed, slashing with my sword were the slavers in a prior life, my current family. And so I felt a huge sense of regret and fairness. What my "uncle" wanted was to remain hating them until now, and he indeed hates this family for nothing, cursing them all in several occasions, whereas I chose to try the best I can to befriend them and just live harmoniously. Otherwise we'd be just hurting each other over the years and many lives to come. However these lives didn't seen to be that close to each other, perhaps I'd say the first 2 I mentioned were about 200 hundreds years apart. And to this one it would be 400 to 500 years apart. Which makes me wonder for how long can we stay resenting something that happened in the past. And after all, any life share many connections, so it makes sense that the souls groups will change from time to time. And perhaps in some cases is much better to keep some people apart for a while to try to cool off spirits, let them live more in a different setting, otherwise they'd just repeat themselves because they can't help it, the feelings are way to strong, either for better or worse.