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Can we agree that neither one of us has ever claimed that Vedic death predictions are highly accurate?
Can we agree that some astrologers were wrong about death prediction because their clients "jumped the gun"? The point here is not about a margin of error, or "anyone can make a mistake." The point is, that if your death prediction were legitimate, but you didn't like your prediction of the timing and manner of your death, you couldn't just buck your fate and commit suicide earlier. If prediction were legitimate, your volitional change of time and date wouldn't be possible. By committing suicide, these men actually did the ultimate test of death prediction's reliability as the mouthpiece of fate, and proved it lacking. For want of a better term, I'd suggest the suicides demonstrated some power of free will.
When astrologers publicly make mistakes about a presidential election outcome, they have some choices. (1) stop predicting. (2) learn from their mistakes and improve their techniques, or (3) continue to use the same methods and hope they strike it lucky next time. One thing I learned from the 2016 election was that a common method in use to predict election outcomes (Aries ingress chart in mundane astrology) seems to be designed for a parliamentary system, not the US system of the presidency determined by the Electoral College. And that one astrologer who used primary directions (vs. the more common transits, progressions) to predict Trump's victory was the one who got it right.
While I proudly plead guilty to having a sense of ethics, the mainstream ethical codes on prediction in astrology are not mine. Several major astrological associations like ISAR and NCGR have codes of ethics, that require their members to qualify predictions and to avoid frightening clients. These codes are on line. Maybe you are familiar with them.
While they do not specifically prohibit their members from predicting death, they contain statements like, "Never needlessly frighten a client with extreme predictions, nor create false hopes in a client, and
always affirm that every astrological configuration can manifest in a variety of ways."
http://www.isarastrology.org/images/EthicsV5.pdf Which becomes problematic for death prediction, if you cannot say whether someone will die at a critical time or merely experience a health problem Big, big difference.
This is not just a "should you?" statement, but it is a "can you?" statement, because ISAR hereby disposes of the highly fatalistic approach to astrological prediction. Basically you shouldn't because you cannot.
Astrodienst, which is probably the largest global on-line astrology forum, prohibits death prediction.
In a free country, people can ask an astrologer whatever they want. It is up to the astrologer to decide whether to answer a particular question. I am entitled to express an opinion on astrological death prediction as a dubious type of fortune-telling, equally.
But surely you are not suggesting that if an astrologer is utterly inexperienced or makes frequent wrong predictions that s/he should be in the business of death prediction?
I've explained my views on prediction generally in a recent post. I believe you misinterpreted them.
Just because some patients want to know how long they have to live, does not mean that astrological prediction is thereby a good idea. Part of the problem, as I've explained above, is that different methods give different results.
I'm still waiting to see your own methods. If you feel so strongly that death prediction is viable, I would expect to see your choice of method and evidence.
