How important is the last thought moment?

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For example,
Let’s say someone does a lot of good deeds like observing the five precepts and giving offerings. Then, a murderer comes and kills him. But that someone didn’t have any fears, hate, or confusion. Can he still be reborn in the deva world if the last thought was “A murderer is trying to kill me”? Does he need to be thinking about the deva world to be born there?

What decides whether he is reborn in the human or deva world? The aspirations he made at the time of doing good deeds? The amount of good deeds?

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SN 55.21

PTS: S v 369

Mahanama Sutta: To Mahanama
Lord, this Kapilavatthu is rich & prosperous, populous & crowded, its alleys congested. Sometimes, when I enter Kapilavatthu in the evening after visiting with the Blessed One or with the monks who inspire the mind, I meet up with a runaway elephant, a runaway horse, a runaway chariot, a runaway cart, or a runaway person. At times like that my mindfulness with regard to the Blessed One gets muddled, my mindfulness with regard to the Dhamma… the Sangha gets muddled. The thought occurs to me, 'If I were to die at this moment, what would be my destination? What would be my future course?"

"Have no fear, Mahanama! Have no fear! Your death will not be a bad one, your demise will not be bad. If one’s mind has long been nurtured with conviction, nurtured with virtue, nurtured with learning, nurtured with relinquishment, nurtured with discernment,{…]

“Have no fear, Mahanama! Have no fear! Your death will not be a bad one, your demise will not be bad.”

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