Karma Does Not Exist

A lot of people believe that karma is a real, active force of nature. For example, say that you plan to cheat on a test and tell your friends about it. They might say "don't do that, karma will bite you in the butt." However, I do not agree with them. I believe that karma does not exist because a lot of horrendous things happen to people who have lived a good life. Also, if karma were real, people would be affected that did not do anything bad.
One of the reasons I do not believe in karma is because even though people are relatively good compared to humanity, terrible things happen to them. My parents have been friends with a couple, Scott and Debbi, for more than 20 years. Scott and Debbi had three kids. Currently one is out of college, one
is in high school, and one is in middle school. They go to church every week and are very welcoming and friendly.
In fact, our families are so close I call them my uncle and aunt. A few years ago Debbi was diagnosed with breast cancer. She underwent the treatment, and was declared cancer free. After a few years everything seemed fine, but then she started having trouble breathing and pain in her head. She went to her oncologist, and they confirmed she had cancer again. I remember when my parents found out, me, my mom, and my brother were eating dinner. The room was dead silent, and we all ate without saying a word, which never happens. It turned out she had a 9 centimeter tumor in her lung and a smaller tumor in her brain. The tests to see exactly what kind of cancer it was took a couple of days. The doctors were thinking it was probably just a common lung cancer that had metastasized, but there was a small chance that it could be a rarer, harder to treat cancer called neuroendocrine cancer. This means that the cancer started in her endocrine system which regulates hormones, and metastasized to her lungs and brain. The test results came back, and she had neuroendocrine cancer. She immediately started radiation and then chemotherapy. The radiation took a big toll on her body and she had to be hospitalized several times for malnutrition as well as pain. A few weeks
after radiation was finished, she had an MRI to see the progress of the tumor in her brain. The results were devastating. Instead of no tumors in her brain, there were several very small tumors, which is really bad considering she just had undergone radiation. Her prognosis was that she had two to three years left to live. Here is a woman that has three kids, goes to church, and is kind to everyone she meets, yet she is dying a slow painful death.
Another reason I do not believe in karma is because it would drastically change the lives of people who did nothing wrong. One of my dad’s sisters is named Beth. She was married to a man named Joe. He was an excellent cook and businessman. Together they had a total of two children who were twins, a boy and a girl. Joe had excellent health and there never was anything seriously wrong with him. In December 2007, just a few days after Christmas, Joe had a massive heart attack. Although he was given CPR and his heart was shocked a few times, he died. At the time, the twins were five years old. Now these kids will have no father in their life while they grow up, and they did nothing to deserve this.
My belief is that karma is not a real thing because good people do not have happy endings, and innocent people are deeply affected by karma. Keeping this in mind, I will live my life believing that if something terrible happens to me, I did nothing to deserve it, and morally, there was nothing I could have done to prevent it.