Clear's following of the design.
| What you have to realize is that we're all just a mouse that a cat has by the tail. Every single move we make, from the mundane to the monumental, the red light that we stop at or run, the people we have sex with or won't with us, the airplanes that we ride or...walk out of; it's all part of Death's sadistic design...leading to the grave.
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Death's Design refers to a series of events designed by Death itself. Details of Death's designs are revealed by William Bludworth throughout the franchise, but it's not clear how he knows them. During the survival days of Clear Rivers, she was following the design, and marked events related to it on the wall in her room of the Stonybrook Institution Psychiatric Treatment Center.
Premonition
Ordinary people who suddenly see the future before a major disaster occurs.
Order of Death
Those targeted by Death after they survived an event they were originally supposed to die are killed in a specific order. The order is usually the same one from what should've killed them. The targets are sometimes collectively known as Death's List. Death has killed people through different orders. In Final Destination, the death order was followed by the explosion in Flight 180. In Final Destination 2, the death order was turned backward of the premonition, which was caused by the deaths of the Flight 180 survivors, though Clear speculates that this may not have been intentional on Death's part, merely Death tying up the loose ends left over. In Final Destination 3, the death order was still based on the order of death, but also on the seating on Devil's Flight, and the photos taken gave clues to how they might die. In The Final Destination, the death order was followed in the order of the premonition, except Jonathan Groves who died out of order by not changing seats.
In Final Destination Bloodlines, Death targeted and claimed each and every survivor of The Sky View as well as their descendants, since they were never meant to exist. As pointed out by Stefani Reyes, Death's order is based on age groups: Iris, the oldest family member, died first, then Howard, then his daughter Julia and Bobby. Erik died as a result of messing with Death's plan even though he was not originally meant to die. After all of Howard's descendants were killed, first Darlene, then Stefani, and finally Charlie were killed. Charlie was the youngest member of the family, and he was the last to die. It is unclear whether Death decided this kind of order specifically for killing the survivors along with their families, or if the order is decided the same way for everyone.