Talk:Aang/@comment-5470502-20120918125312/@comment-5197746-20120918232928

Speaking from an Avatar-Spirit World sense, I would say that that is how the spirits work. There are appointed times for people to die, those times were Aang and Roku's time.

In a more physical form, I believe that their deaths were what would be considered as normal to the Avatar State. If the Avatar was actually being threatened in any way, (the iceberg situation, Yakone, etc.) then it would be triggered. Roku died really from inhaling posionous gas. If the Avatar State was triggered, what would happen? Wouldn't he still die? Let's also remember that the Avatar State isn't invincible. "If you are killed in the Avatar State, the reincarnation cycle will be broken and the avatar will cease to exist." Vulnerability. Hey, they all have to die sometime. That's the way it works.