Experts: Anger Is a Natural Response to Tragedy Like Recent Fatal Crash
Plenty of online resources offer suggestions for dealing with grief and its related emotions when people experience loss, as happened in Saturday’s deadly crash in Campton Hills.
Dealing with the loss of a loved one, whether family member or friend, is never easy and might be more difficult when the death is an accident or appears senseless. The deaths of Jennifer Liston, 30, of Madison, Wis., and Zachary Bingham, 18, of Maple Park, on Saturday night, Dec. 1, certainly have elicited an array of emotional reactions, including anger toward Liston, who was driving at speeds of more than 100 mph before the accident along Route 38 in Campton Hills. Liston was driving a car stolen in Wheaton. She was involved in a hit-and-run accident in Geneva before the deadly crash, and fled when a Kane County sheriff’s deputy began to pursue her. The deputy ended the chase when Liston hit speeds of more than 100 mph. Witnesses said …
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JuleS
3:20 pm on Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Very helpful article, and well-thought. I do not feel anger, nor should others, toward the family of a 30-year-old woman who behaves in a reckless manner such as this accident, because at 30 years she's an independent adult and making her own decisions -- she's not being advised by family members to drive recklessly not to steal a car. The fact that family members and friends are publicly … more ›