The simple explanation, and one that encapsulates the entirety of the necessary elements, is that someone’s significant other died, and that someone believes th

The simple explanation, and one that encapsulates the entirety of the necessary elements, is that someone’s significant other died, and that someone believes that if she had been allowed for some treatment, the outcome would have been different. This is a story that , justly or not, unfolds hundreds if not thousands of times a day. It’s not the first time, and won’t be the last, that the affected person has the right combination of dark triad traits and appropriate experiences to make personal vengeance a viable response. As someone who recently lost their spouse of 16 years to cancer, I can say that in the right circumstances this might be an understandable, if not justifiable, response to that kind of stress.