Yeah, I'm a little dubious at the level of comfort it has seemingly provided her. Imagine a real-life version of her scenario--say they had gone on the trip, and the boy had been drowning, but the father jumped in and saved him, getting pulled under and unfortunately drowning himself in the process. The father would still have 'died to save the son,' but I bet she'd be a lot more wracked with grief in that case.
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