Unnatural Loss

I was reading in the papers this morning about how a 21-year old intern lost his life in the Delhi Blasts and how his father and uncle had to called to identify his body. Such situations terrify me to the core. Its not so much about the bombs and the mayhem caused by them, but the loss of a life whom you have nurtured and grown with,so that human can become the person he//she is supposed to be. So much has been given up by the parents to bring up their child, in the hope that someday they will take care of them in their old age or will make them proud or will just love them back exactly the way they did or that they may realise their unfulfilled dreams through the child. So much ,just so much is invested and its all lost because of some third person's vengeance or selfish agendas and motives.They say life is not fair,alright. But to lose a child in the grey-days of one's life is not just a big blow,but almost like killing the parents in their souls and their hearts. Yes life may go on,but it will have lost so much that it would never be the same again.
Parental guilt is such that it probably never goes away, cause we are never sure if we are doing enough for our children. In such situations it probably surmounts to unexplained heights that can never be overcome. As parents we always want to protect our children,even if they are grown up enough to have their life which is separate from the one we have given them.So losing a child in such unexplained and unforeseen circumstances,leaves us with so many questions that we are not sure where to find the answers from. While justice may be brought by punishing those responsible for the heinous acts,but does it take away the guilt of not having been able to protect our child or the questions over why did it have to be my child only?I don't think so.
I do hope and pray that the luckier ones who have never lost a near and dear one under unnatural circumstances,may never have to see this day.
Amen!