What was it like to face the worst choice you have ever had to make?

Sometimes you’re faced with choices where, no matter which one you make, you will hurt someone. Perhaps you will hurt those you love. Perhaps you will hurt yourself—a sacrifice, so to speak.

This is the kind of thing like the questions where people ask whether you would kill one person to save ten. Except it’s more personal. It’s something you’ve faced in your own life.

What was the situation—the choice you had to make? How did you make that choice? What was your thinking? How did you feel both before making the choice and after?