Survivor's Guilt Analysis

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In 1945 during the holocaust had ended Otto Frank was the only one that survived the tragedy that had almost killed 500,000 people,he felt guilty for being the only one that survived when the rest of his family did not. Numerous of people often face life and death situations and some humans feel guilty about surviving and others heal and don't feel guilty at all. Countless people argue that people in life and death situations should not feel survivor's guilt. While some believe that survivors of life and death situations should feel survivor's guilt. In reason that survivors of life and death situations should feel survivor's guilt is because guilt pushes you to act, and it helps people be a good moral person at heart. In the editorial “The

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