[Serious] People who have killed another person, accidently or on purpose, what happened?

College student hopping between Massachusetts and New Jersey wishing you the very best of days.

A thought I had - those folks passed preserving life. That probably sounds like an absolutely awful thing to say in this context at first thought, but I hope you can think about it another way: if you were going to die, what's the best thing you could think of happening as a result? Surely, different people have different answers there, but my answer personally - and I feel (perhaps naively) that a lot of others would share that answer - is that the best thing that could result from my passing is the preservation of another life.

Put another way, how many ways could one die pointlessly? A drunk driver careening off the road, someone trying to save a few seconds on a commute trying and failing to beat a train through the gates. So many ways people could die with no upside - no positive to be found in the tragedy of their loss. Personally, while I have no desire for my run at life to end, when it does inevitably happen, especially if it happens early, I can only hope that there's some upside that can be found in the situation. A life was saved in your situation. There is an upside to be found here. If I had been in that car, I'd be happy to know my death had meaning, and while again, perhaps I'm a touch naive, I think most people would echo that feeling.

I'm not going to be naive and expect this to have some profound positive effect on you - if I were in your situation I can't imagine much of anything would be able to help in any sort of major, profound way, other than just taking things a day at a time as you put it. Really, I can only hope that my thoughts transferred to the keyboard fairly coherently, and that this doesn't come across poorly at all. But, in case this helps you or anybody else even in the slightest, it was worth trying to type out.

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