Festival Attendee Abducted and Paraded by Hamas Was Beheaded: Israeli Prez

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16. One member expressed relief.

The worry is over, so her family's suffering is over. The prospect of her suffering is over. There's closure, in 21st-century-speak.

Whether that's relief or not depends on whether you want the pain of certainty and a final answer or the hope of uncertainty and the possibility of continued pain that has unclear extent.

I might not make the same decision, and the grandfather (I think it was) might make a different evaluation tomorrow. But with death, prayers can be said, shiva can be sat, and mourning can begin. There's certainty that *her* suffering is over, it is finished, whatever her family's. In that there is a certain comfort.

Blessed is the God of truth.

May her memory be for a blessing.