Were I shown the corpses and deaths of all of my friends, family, acquaintances, and even enemies, I would certainly do one of a few things. One option would be to just...hang on with some sort of a dogged persistence, constantly forcing myself to live and want to live. Clearly, this would be a very hard mindset to keep if this incident kept happening for a long time. Eventually, some part of you would just want to give in to the horrors. At some point, I believe that the human mindset is so fickle that too much trouble and awfulness would destroy any capability that it earlier had to hang on. It would take a very special few people to continue the way the Gottesfelds did in Love in a World of Sorrow. Another, much more probable option, is to just give in to the situation. Again, this is another extreme that is probably very uncommon. It would take the right amount of bravery and laziness to follow that path, because somewhere within everybody is the craving for life. The final option is one that resides somewhere in the middle, with characteristics of both. It would probably be the least satisfying, least safe or productive, and the most common choice to make. In this scenario, the victim would be so alone and sad that they would be confused, scared, and indecisive, but that survival mode would kick in. They would be too scared to do much at all to likely their deaths, and too confused to just give in. This person would band together with other victims, and by doing this, probably die. If it were me, I would want to be somebody who was committed to the first option, be terrified of the second option, and probably fall into the third category. Then again, it takes a very specific situation to test this theory.
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