Examples are better than precepts

Recently, I was informed and I verily believe, of the story of a family which has five children. The father is 60 years old. The first child is a medical doctor who unfortunately was kidnapped on his way to work early this year. After so many weeks in the custody of the kidnappers, news filtered to the father that his son, the medical doctor had died in the hands of his abductors. Soon after that, the second child, an engineer, died during an armed robbery attack.