Why?
Survivors of senseless murders and suicide are haunted by the deepest question- "WHY"? Why did this have to happen? Why would he/she do this to me? Why didn't I do something differently? Why am I being punished? Why would anyone be so cruel? Why would anyone be so selfish? And so on.... Although we may never know the answer to these questions, we often find ourselves coming up with various answers that negate the truth of the matter. For example, many people experience survivor guilt. "Survivor guilt explores the other side of the coin of why me? Namely, why not me? Why did I survive when others did not? Those who struggle with it may express the feeling of being an impostor: somehow the "wrong" person survived; it "just doesn't seem right." Many feel that beating the odds makes little sense unless t