Sudden deaths

Subhane Allah, we keep hearing these days about young people dying suddenly. One of our colleagues at work lost his wife 2 days ago, he talked to her over the phone, and 30mn later, he received another call telling him that his wife had just died, suddenly. He traveled back to his country for the funerals and I felt very sorry for him and his loss, inna lil'Allah, was inna ilayhi rajiun.
Across the past few months, so many people just died around us, without accident, without previous illness, some were very young, 18years or so, some very athletic just like another friend who passed away a week ago, about 40 years old, again, all of sudden. Sister Mena has just posted something very similar on her blog.
May Allah Make us take the lessons of all this, and Soften our hearts, and Grant us a nice death, where He would be pleased with us.


Our Prophet Mohammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) said: One of resurrection day’s signs is the appearance of abrupt death.  Attabarani.

From islam qa website http://islamqa.info/en/ref/43840:

With regard to the order in which the portents of the Hour will appear, there is some difference of opinion among the scholars, the reason being that no such order or events is narrated in the Sunnah. However the scholars have determined the order of some of the events, as follows: 

1 – The appearance of the minor portents of the Hour, of which there are many which will not appear in any specific order. These include: the sending of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and his death; the plague of ‘Amwaas; the appearance of tribulations; the loss of honesty; the disappearance of knowledge; the spread of riba, musical instruments and alcohol; regarding these things as permissible; competition in erecting tall buildings; a great deal of killing; time passing more quickly; adornment of the mosques; prevalence of shirk; the spread of immorality; a great deal of stinginess; many earthquakes; landslides, transformations and pelting with stones from the heavens; disappearance of righteous people; believers’ dreams coming true; neglect of the Sunnah; a great deal of lying; a great deal of false testimony; a great deal of sudden death; a great deal of rain but little growth of vegetation; wishing for death; increase in numbers of the “Romans” and fighting them; and other signs which are narrated in saheeh ahaadeeth from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). 

Difficult for you not to agree that most of the list above has already appeared....

Our heart beats are in the Hands of Allah, may Allah Help us use what is remaining of our life to straighten ourselves and increase our good deeds.Are we thankful enough that we are still alive?