jackangel, do you really believe that taking some strangers life is worse than a lose of a loved one? I would glady kill anyone if that meant that my loved one would live. Murder can be thought as a pleasurable thing by some individual, a way to let anger and aggression out, as per vacuum theory. Obiously it is restricted by moral values, laws, and fear of punishment, but I do not see how it can be worse than what I originally stated.
I can't imagine anything worse than the death of a child. It has sunk many people into deep depressions that they never recover from, heartbroken until the day they die.