User blog comment:Dominic1743/“The Heroes' Journey” Discussion/@comment-44905711-20200124024009/@comment-98.115.189.149-20200130085435

I agree that there is probably some complexity to the was it skill, luck or Chuck question. Good genes/ strong vessels could explain a lot of the health thing, rounded out by angel heals. Hard to say how Chuck intervenes like that. He writes, but says there's free will, but seems to like people to do things themselves. Maybe he intervenes only when he sees it as absolutely needed, more in a resurection way, putting Castiel back together. Remember when Charie was shot and hiding in a cabin from the Steins. When the brothers got there, she woke saying "Merry Christmas", ousted from her personal Heaven, I think that was an example of Chuck resurecting her. Chuck luck. Maybe that time Sam seemed to die of strangling by the werewolf victim was another Chuck intervention.