Drunk Driver kills family of 4, content warning

[MTL]

The good news is that all of the family members were killed. It would suck to survive something like that.

I think that is an instinctive reaction:  we don't like to see someone suffer heartbreak or hardship,
so our knee-jerk reaction, in the short term, is that it is better to die than survive,
when your whole family is killed.

And it's possible that you might be right, in this particular scenario;

But in the longer term, this isn't necessarily true:

Lots of people have survived great losses, and were glad they did;
a damaged life still often being better than no life at all.

We don't know the extent of the children's injuries,
or how much extended family they may have had that could have raised them.

If the children had been able to physically recover,
and still be raised in loving homes,
I think that would have been better, by far,
than death.