Whatever one’s personal beliefs may be, I would like to think that for every person, our relationships with our loved ones never end in death. Where is hope when countless lives are lost? What could we hold on to in the face of death? For co-workers and schoolmates one can now only see in one’s memory. For the neighbors that will never be seen looking out from their windows again. For the fathers, mothers, sons, daughters and friends who have been taken away in an instant. The opposite may be true for the thousands of people who have already identified those that they have lost. It is with hope also that people continue to pray that more people can be saved despite the urgency of time. Hope is the one thing that people can still hold on to as they continue to search for survivors. It is a sign that though one cannot see with certainty, there is still a link between those on the ground and those who are still struggling beneath it. More than a week after it claimed the lives of more than 40,000 people as of the The New York Times update, rescuers say that voices are still being heard coming from possible survivors trapped under the rubble.įor those people who are still looking for their loved ones, such voices are like beacons of hope that life can still be found underneath the collapsed buildings. The devastating earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria in 2023 is a catastrophe that would shake every human being and remind us of our mortality.
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