I’ve re typed this reply 4 times because this is not the place to write an essay on the nature of God, causality, reality, chaos theory or the analogy of God as the programmer of reality.

To put it simply the chances of someone getting terminally ill, whilst undoubtedly a tragic and very sensitive issue is also either based on pre-made choices (smoking etc) or is completely random.

I have a poor diet and so if I develop Diabetes or another illness thats on me. If I develop something completely unrelated to my life choices then it is completely random and sadly my number came up. I take solace in this because at no point can I blame God for any of it.

On the larger subject of worldwide suffering, most of that is man-made. As a species we produce enough food to feed the whole world twice over every day and yet people starve and we throw away one third of that food. Starvation and famine are our fault.