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Can one be forgiven for murder?

It is a legitimate question. Perhaps if society has said it is okay, if the reasons were there then it is okay. Fine, society says it is okay. But can you forgive yourself? How many times can you go over and over in your head how you could have avoided the situation or done anything different that would make it not real. Because no matter what, you took a life. And you think about that everyday. The guilt travels all through your body and eats your heart. It eats your throat and chokes all the words you could say about what had happened. It eats your stomach as it ties it in knots, like a worm in a decaying corpse. It leaves you as a shell. A shell with hollow sunken dark eyes.