No, I did not say that. If someone intends murder, they murdered. That in my view of soul contracts the victim's time on earth was up anyway does not absolve the perpetrator of the crime. In one of my earlier essays that discussed these themes, https://marcus17043.medium.com/my-takeaways-from-news-that-alec-baldwin-charged-with-involuntary-manslaughter-4381d31637, I wrote: "Baldwin and the other defendants may be the cause of Halyna Hutchins’s death but they did not cause her death. Each of our soul contracts contains two immutable provisions — date of birth and date of death. Yet, how we live and how we die are very much the product of free will. Thus, laws that seek to control how we act and that promote safety remain of the utmost importance."

Regarding money damages in a wrongful death suit, I am not saying eliminate them and I was not looping that into the vengeance discussion. I'm saying the measure of damages should not differ from one case to another based on some actuarial table of an assumed life span. I included it here (which also came out of my Alec Baldwin piece (I didn't provide a link in the story)) just as another example of what could change if my understanding that dates of death are predetermined became accepted.