Bullied To Death - And After Death

You know I hate bullying. I have two previous posts about how terrible I think it is. I'm sad to say that this is yet another post about bullying. I don't mean to keep posting about it, but things keep happening that I can't just ignore. This post is going to be a little different, though. This post is about Amanda Todd's story. If you are not familiar with her story, watch the video posted below.

This girl, Amanda Todd, ended up killing herself. No other bullying story I have addressed ends with the victim committing suicide. I hope that this shows people how serious bullying is. Though I hate what she went through and am terribly upset with the people who treated her that way, I am mostly going to address how people are responding to the story. Yes, I will talk about what happened to her but I am mostly discussing what people are saying about her now and what is currently happening because it makes me sick to my stomach.

Many, many people feel sympathy for Amanda and are treating her memory with respect, which is very admirable and those people make me proud. Those are the sort of people we need in this world. If you are among that group of people, thank you so much. You are amazing. The rest of you, however, should be downright disgusted with yourselves. I am disgusted by you.

Why is that, you ask? Anyone who takes a story of someone's suicide and turns it into a joke, something to laugh at and not be taken seriously is someone who does not deserve the tiniest amount of respect and will get absolutely none from me. If you are one of those people, shame on you. You are among the lowest of the low.

You would be surprised how many people are doing this. Her story has become an internet joke which makes me ashamed of my country and fellow human beings. Sometimes I really hate people. Some people have written the most vile things about her, saying that we shouldn't care that she's dead because she made some bad choices. How messed up that? You shouldn't care if someone lost their life because they weren't perfect? If we all lived by that rule, no one would ever care if someone died. She doesn't deserve sympathy or respect because she did things that were wrong? What a stupid thing to think. Amanda was just a child, barely in high school. If you saw the video, all she really wanted was a friend. She was all alone and was desperate for someone to notice her and be friends with her, so, yeah, she made some mistakes because people were treating her nice and like they cared about her. Later, those people turned out to be jerks, but that's not her fault.

What really shocks me is that she makes a couple of mistakes and gets more hate than women who sell their bodies and do extremely immoral things on a daily basis. She is getting more hate than the men who used her. More hate than the guy who sent her picture around the internet.

I am not exaggerating about the hate. Just look at some of these comments from Youtube. Don't worry, I will not post their usernames even though they don't deserve that much consideration. I am going to dash out all the curse words because some people don't think they can get their point across without using them.

"Aww boo fooping who. She did it to her slef she was stupid for doing it maybe instead of  ----- about it she could have forgotten now look she's dead and people treat her like some hero she brought it all on her slef. I have no pity for stupidity."

 ".....this girl isn't the angel all these people try and make her out to be. Of course she didn't deserve to die, but she certainly doesn't deserve attention or respect."

"......she decided to flash people. She brought it all upon herself. She doesn't deserve any empathy."

"So the real question to ask is, why does this girl deserve any more attention than the guy that died as you read this comment?"

"I hope she rots.It's what she deserves."

"----- is dead. She deserved it. Hope she's rotting in hell."

"One mistake? Her whole life was a mistake. Glad she died."

I'm dead serious when I say that these aren't even the worst of the bunch. If you authored any of theses disgusting comments then you probably should re-evaluate your life. You make yourself out to be something of horrible jerk that doesn't deserve any respect. 

Look, sometimes people make mistakes and do things that they shouldn't do. Even you. But does that mean that they lose all respect as a human being and their life isn't valuable anymore? Does that mean that we don't need to care that if they take their own life? Does that mean that people are idiots for caring? Does that mean we don't need to care if they were bullied? No. Not at all.

No one who has died deserves more or less attention than another dead person, but it doesn't mean it's wrong to care and let people know that you care, especially if you are aware of their death. So, in response to the person who wrote: "why does this girl deserve any more attention than the guy that died as you read this comment?" She doesn't. But I am aware of her death and I care about her. Therefore, I am giving her some attention because I think she's important and deserves sympathy and respect. Tell me the name of the guy who died while I read the comment and I will show sympathy and respect for him, as well.

So, you may be asking, you saw a couple of idiots posting comments on youtube and that means everyone's an idiot? No. I wish it was just a couple of jerks posting their opinions on it, but that's not it. It's that plus the people who thought it would be funny to make internet memes about her. I mean, if that doesn't illustrate how disgustingly low and immature people are then I don't know what does.

Don't believe me? Here are a few of them.

 Again, these are not the worst of them. I couldn't bring myself to post the most horrible ones that I saw. If you made a meme like this, or you even think they are funny and/or clever, you are an embarrassment to society.

If you don't care about Amanda Todd or you take pleasure about laughing at the suicide of a 15 year old girl, or you think that caring about Amanda means that we don't care about anyone else who has died, you have a lot to learn. Just because I care about Amanda Todd doesn't mean I don't care about other suicide victims or anyone else. It's possible to care about them all. I don't know why you have to compare her death to other ones and us it to justify your cruelness, that's plain sick. Caring about this young girl does not mean I don't care about anyone else.

What this all goes down to is bullying. Bullying is wrong and it's very serious. It's wrong to bully people while they're alive and it's wrong and sometimes even more vile and disgusting to do it after they've died, which is what is happening right now. Why can't society grow up and mature to care about a young, fifteen year old girl who was viciously attacked for things that many, many people have done, who was so lost and alone that the only way out she saw was suicide? Why can't we care about her? Why can't some people be less of a monster? Why do you have to show everyone what a terrible excuse for a human being you are?

If you got bullied and then killed yourself, would you want people making internet memes about you and laughing about your death? I didn't think so. That is so disrespectful.

I am very interested in human psychology and plan on majoring in psychology at the school I attend. Clinical depression is very real and suicide is no joke. You have no right to poke fun at this young, beautiful girl. You have no idea what she went through or what was going on inside her head. All you know is what was posted on the internet. You don't know the whole story.

When people get clinically depressed and have anxiety disorders or panic attack disorders, they can't think rationally. Many times, suicide is the only out that they see. It's psychological, not selfishness. If you can't give her the respect she deserves, if you can't care that she's gone despite her mistakes, if you don't care that she was bullied to death, then you don't deserve respect. You need to understand the psychology of suicide and depression before you go around making judgement calls and making an internet joke out of a dear girls' life. This goes above and beyond what choices she made. This about her life.

For those of you who hate on her and mock her, shame on you. You have nothing to be proud of.


R.I.P Amanda Todd, sweet girl. You are loved and missed. <3