Survivor's Guilt: When Being Okay Feels Like a Betrayal

Survivor's guilt doesn't only belong to war or disaster. It shows up after a serious illness when others didn't recover the way you did. After an accident that someone else didn't walk away from. After a round of redundancies, when your name wasn't on the list and a colleague's was. After a sibling's death, when you're the one who gets to keep growing older. In each of these, the same quiet question tends to surface: why me, and not them?