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Earlier in the week, there was a bad one car wreck in a neighboring city that killed the person driving and severely injured the passengers. I never knew the girl who was driving, yet I am feeling an immense amount of grief and have lost sleep thinking about it. This has never happened before, as I have never felt this way about someone’s death on the news. I don’t know at all why I am feeling this way about this. I have considered it to be a higher power speaking to me through the death, but I am not sure. Anyone possibly have an idea as to why I am feeling this way?

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Answer #1

Sometimes certain events trigger anxieties in us. They remind us that life is finite, that you cant fight death, that really at the end of the day you’re alone in life because no one can be with you forever, that pain is part of life, that people can be taken away from us in an instant, etc etc etc. Of course those are existential concerns. If you are religious and make sense of it in that way, then feel free to think of it in terms of that. Or perhaps there are other issues like fear of abandonment, certain phobias. Something in your past that is coming up. I mean it is pretty impossible to tell you what sort of things are going on in the unconscious, which means it is not possible for anyone else to tell you what is going on for you… You’d need to explore this with someone if you really want to find out… Or you could just wait it out, try some breathing exercises and it will hopefully go away in a bit…

Answer #2

it doesnt have anything to do with any god its likley that your affected by this because it happend so close to you seeing something on the news is entirely different to seeing something happen in front of your eyes or near were you live it reminds you that your human, and that everyone else is human and that death and tragedy can happen anytime and anywere even next door it would be best to talk to a councellor to get all these feelings off your chest

Answer #3

Accidents on the news happen to “strangers”. Someone in your own neighborhood, though you didn’t know them, is closer to home.

Answer #4

It is called empathy.

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