There is nothing I can imagine that would be worse than to watch helplessly as your children are burned alive--and to relive that torture for the rest of one's existance, which those in Beslan will do--

All the descriptions of Hell that we have are earthly terrors--in fact, the decriptions in religious texts pale to whatwe see every night in the news--The Holocaust, Hiroshima, Cambodia, ethnic cleansing, and much more give us all a broad hint that we live in Hell----