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Wednesday, October 29, 2003
Suicide.
Two days ago a memeber of my junior class committed suicide. Brandon Bergun[I spelled his last name wrong, I am sure]] was his name.
It has not been disclosed how he died or under what circumstances.
So today in Newspaper we were discussing what to do about it, since two articles in the paper pertained suicide within them. Most thought it would annoy close friends of Brandon's, or it would hurt them, or look like we don't care.
The first article is a column by a girl of the name of Lisa Horner. She is a co-editor of the paper along with Mike Mullen.
Anyways, her column shows her as a sophomore, and how she had had 3 boyfriends, how she doesn't like being touched.
Then it hit on her 16th birthday.
That day she took a noosed rope as she sat in her bathroom crying and put it around her neck, pushed it tighter and tighter until it made her gape and choke.
She said in the column that it felt like control.
Lisa's columns have been like this this year. Her first one told of how she doesn't care about her parents, and that her parents constantly ask her what is wrong, ask her how her day was, and such.
It ended with her mom saying, "I love you," and Lisa not saying anything back.
Everyone has felt like these two columns say before. Few just have the guts to say it, or go through with it, or remember it.
Anyways, getting off topic.
They discussed this all period. We ended up deciding to do an editor's note.
All this morning I felt very morose and apathetical. It beat down on me like a bloodred hammer.
I didn't care that Brandon had killed himself. That's his own problem. And this is how I really feel.
Suicides happen every single day. What is the deal?
In our society it's seen as such a horrid thing. It is on one hand.
I've lost my entire focus for this post.
I feel really apathetical a lot of the time in the morning until I get food.
That is about all I have to say.
Target has not called, there goes that job. I am so sick of looking for one too.
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