Can you survive the feeling of guilt?

Did you ever do something very bad, which caused severe consequences? And you didn’t do it on purpose; it was completely an accident. I always wonder if people could survive from the feeling of guilty. Imagine that someone was hurt or even dead because of you. Could you live with the burden? You knew you were not meant to hurt anybody but what had been done was done. People would be healed, but dead people could not come back. The guilty would hunt you every day and every night. It would become into nightmares and torture you all the time. You would keep thinking what it would be like if you had not done that thing. I know I can’t survive from guilty. Can you?