What Is Survivor's Guilt Necessary?

“I felt guilty for many years that maybe I should have run back and tried to get her with me or stay with her. Maybe I didn’t do enough to stay together. Maybe I was too selfish about saving myself. You can excuse yourself and say if I had run back my fate would have been the same as hers. There is no logic to my feelings.. but those words ring in my ears, “If you’re not going to eat, you’re going to die.” Rose F. Many people argue about whether survivor’s guilt is necessary. Some people believe that survivor’s guilt should be felt by survivors of life and death situations others feel that they should not. Survivors of life and death situations should not feel survivor's guilt.
One reason that survivors should not feel survivor’s guilt is because it keeps you from moving on in life to the more important things. In the short story by Haruki Murakami “The Seventh Man” is about a man who reflects on his childhood when he lost his friend in a typhoon. In this text survivor's guilt is represented in so many ways also the survivor didn’t cause the tragedy. This shows that people who have survived something shouldn’t feel responsible and they should just move in with their lives. This proves that survivors of life and death situations shouldn’t feel survivor’s guilt. …show more content…
This is about how the seventh man felt when his best friend died. Recurring nightmares are cruel,unfair and horrible this could make people hold on longer. This shows that the seventh man’s survivor’s guilt of his best friend’s death held him back. This proves survivors shouldn’t feel survivor’s guilt because you hold on longer and it makes things