Why Was Lots Wife Turned Into A Pillor Of Salt?

Genesis 19:26 states simply, "But Lot's wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt." There's not much detail about this specific event, nor is her downfall mentioned in the story after the event. It almost seems that those involved were not much surprised that it happened.
Lot was the nephew of Abraham. Abraham had been warned that the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah was great and their sin very grievous. Because Abraham pleaded with the Lord to have mercy on that land since Lot and his family lived there, God sent angels to Lot.

The angels said to those being saved "Flee for your lives! Don't look back, and don't stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!" While Lot and his family were fleeing Sodom and Gomorrah as God rained down burning sulfer on Sodom and Gomorrah utterly destroying it. It seems, the looking back of Lot's wife at this time was both literal and figurative. She not only disobeyed the angels (who were messengers of God), she may have looked back in her heart, perhaps because she participated in the sinfulness of that area in some way and regretted having to leave it. Perhaps that's why Lot doesn't seem excessively troubled or surprised by this event. (It is also possible that I'm reading too much into his silence here.) In any event, the judgement against her was swift and the remaining salt pillar a clear sign to those around her not to join in her disobedience. Whether her being turned to "salt" has any deeper meaning is not clear to me. But then again, neither is the choice of burning sulfer as the means of destruction.

It is interesting to note that even to this day, the area where Sodom and Gomorrah were located remains a desolate wasteland.

Yes I believe that the salt represents the way you live your life. There is what as known as a salt covenant.  In old times when people would agree to something they would go into a salt covenant and the two parties would have bread and poor salt over it and they would both eat it.  The salt represents
that they would now live there life in  this covenant. God wanted salt on his sacrifices. That means don't just talk about liven for God but do it.  When she turned around missing the life in sin God turned her into salt to say to lot and the others about a salt covenant meaning do the will of God and turn from sin. Thats very close to it but I bet a person that knows hebrews traditions could teach you better

Christians have been asking each other that since I can remember. Jesus even told his disciples
( remember Lots wife ) I think Jesus want's undivided surrender/commitment, other scriptures to back this up( No man putting his hand to the plow and looks back is not worthy to be follower) para
(Let the dead bury their own dead)

God wanted to destroy a land of 'mega-sinners' and an angel was sent to save certain people from the place and the angel told lots wife not to  =look back and she did. Instantly she turned to a pillar of salt.