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Person A is reminiscing and beating herself over her supposed failures at not
saving some people including B who had to go away.

> Bさんの時もそうだった…
>
> もっと強くもっと早くこの手を伸ばせていれば
>
> ようやく巡り合えた愛しい相手を残し瞳の奥に涙して笑顔で空に還ることも
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> 母のように娘のように大切にしていた相手を見送るしかない強く哀しい選択も
>
> させずに…すんだはず

This is the provisional translation without the end bit which I don't get.

> That also happened with B-san...
>
> If I had reached out with this hand of mine more quickly more strongly...
>
> 1: Finally being able to meet the one you held dear and return to the skies
> with a smiling face while concealing tears in the depth of your eye...
>
> 2: And also the really sad choice of having no option but to part with a
> person you cherished like a mother, like a daughter…
>
> ???

Given the context, I'm assuming the entire thing is basically an elaborate "If
I tried harder the bad things 1 and 2 wouldn't have happened", but I don't
really get how させずに…すんだはず works or what it means.

I do get that すんだ = するのだ and that させずに is kinda an adverb (?) meaning that
without doing something A expects something happens? But yeah, I don't get
this part at all really.

I guess the question would be what does this part mean, and how would one
translate it?
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grammar translation meaning
What would させずにすんだはず mean in the following context
すんだ does not mean するのだ. すんだ is the past tense of 済む, which means to end/to
finish.

させず is the negation of させる, which means to cause/to make happen. ず is a
negation, similar to ない. You can read a bit more about ~ずに here:
<http://www.jgram.org/pages/viewOne.php?tagE=zuni>.

Thus, the させずにすんだ means: `it ended without causing person B to have to do 1
and 2`. With はず at the end, させずに…すんだはず it means: `it would have ended without
causing person B to have to do 1 and 2`.
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