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 Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 7:36 am
Two days ago, I received the worst, most unexpected call of my life... My younger cousin, at age 14, had committed suicide.
Rhianna Morawitz was a young, sweet, caring, intelligent, self-effacing, talented girl who was beautiful inside and out. People had gone out of their way to bully her for years in school. Her freshman year in high school, less than two months into the school year, Rhianna took her own life. She hung herself in her bedroom closet, holding her legs up... if she had just stood up, she could have spared her own life at any time. Her emotional pain and suffering was even stronger than the physical pain and fear she had to endure in taking her own life. Rhianna was not selfish, and although so many people cried and mourned over her death, in that moment of weakness, the words and the actions of one last bully was all it took to end dear Rhianna's life.
Today, we are going to a candlelight memorial at a local elementary school in her memory...
Please sign this petition, we know that the petition itself will do no good, but the more signatures we have, the more people who know and sympathize with us, the more power we have to actually make a change.
Spread Word of the Rhianna Movement.
Stop Bullying; Save A Life
http://www.change.org/petitions/the-rhianna-movement-stop-all-bullying-in-schools-of-all-kinds
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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 8:38 am
I'm so sorry about your cousin...... It's always sad when someone commits suicide. Mostly when it's because of bullying. People don't realize how hurtful things are to some people. I bet those people who bullied her are regretting it now hopefully. If I can find a candle I'll burn one for her.
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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 9:23 am
So unbelievably sorry to hear this. It's a shame that bullying can get so bad that the only way to solve it is to coimmit suicide.
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Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 6:53 pm
I am so so sorry about this. People are so cruel to each other!
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 7:30 pm
I hope bullies feel horrible after something like this happens. It's sickening.
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Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 2:07 am
As long as rules in education establishments are so lenient and as long as faculty and staff have such limited power in dealing with misbehaving kids, this is going to keep happening. I think there was a reason you wouldn't hear about these kinds of things much 70 years ago. A national reform to not only policies regarding juveniles, but also to the attitudes towards juveniles needs to occur. Kids these days are treated much differently than adults. I'm sure that if these same people tried this crap 10 years later when they were legal adults, the system wouldn't be so lenient on them. But because they are younger and practically immune to the law, they can bully whoever the hell they want and there's not a damn thing anyone can legally do about it.
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Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 6:43 am
R.I.P. to your cousin -places flower for her- No one should go though ******** bullies!!
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