Survivor's Guilt In The Seventh Man By Haruki Murakami

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From the capsizing of the MS Herald of Free Enterprise which killed 193 of the 459 passengers, 60 percent of the survivors suffered from survivor guilt. Survivor's guilt is guilt that some people experience after a traumatic event where many people die and they survive. Some people believe survivors of life and death situations should feel survivor's guilt, others feel they should not. Survivors of life and death situations should not feel survivor's guilt.
One reason survivors of life and death situations should not feel survivor's guilt is because of the horrible nightmares that occur. The Seventh Man by Haruki Murakami is a short story about a boy that witnesses his friend die by a wave during a typhoon and feels guilty and has recurring

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