Lost in a Sea of Suffering - When Your Loved One is Killed and Justice Seems Far Away

Introduction
The pain of loosing someone you love is hard to deal with and families grieve over their loss. Their sadness is intense and life seems to stand still. There is no one who will disagree with the fact that this is the saddest part of life.

When we loose some one to death from natural causes, like illness, accidents, etc., we feel sadness. We bury the loved one and work to cope with our loss. We get past it. We are able to continue with our life. We will carry this person in our heart and miss them, but we can move on knowing they died of something where there wasn't any one at fault. It was just one of those things beyond our control.

Death is a part life which no one wants to deal with, but we all know it is an inevitable conclusion to everyone's life. There is nothing anyone can do to avoid it.

When a loved one is murdered, the process is a much longer ordeal. There is dealing with the death, waiting for autopsies; dealing with law enforcement officials (police and District Attorneys); waiting for the wheels of justice to turn; burying a loved without answers; dealing with the questions of who, why, where, and how; trying to find peace amidst the turmoil; dealing with a trial and hoping for a conviction; and then dealing with the knowledge that a life was lost in a way which was brutal and mean. This of course rests on the hopes that the killer is found and finally brought to justice. If the murderer is not known or found, the pain is even worse. There are no answers to your questions. There is no closure or even the hope of closure until the killer is found. Many times, these families have no body to bury because the body has never been discovered. There are those which have been solved, but the murderer has fled. Although, solved there is no peace while the killer roams free. This is an endless sea of suffering few could ever fully understand unless they went through it.