Amanda Todd

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I'm sure all or most of you have heard about the death of Amanda Todd. If you're not familiar with the issue, Amanda was a 15 year old teenage girl who had committed suicide from being bullied both online and physically. She made a video on her YouTube account about her never ending story about being bullied. It's honestly such a sad video and breaks my heart. You can all watch it by clicking here.

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In the video she's holding a bunch of cue cards with words on them to explain her story. When she was in grade seven she started having video chats with her friends and met new people. In one of the cards that she's holding in her video it says, "Then got called stunning, beautiful, perfect, etc....", isn't that what every girl wants to hear? especially if you're a girl with a low self - esteem or don't often get called those terms? I know words like that make every girl feel happy. It probably made Amanda feel good about herself too which as a result caused her to flash a 32 year old man, but never thought it would come back to haunt her.

This 32 year old man knew things about her personal life, such as her address, school, list of her friends names, etc. even when she had moved away. He threatened her to give him a show or else he would post her picture of her breasts everywhere, and as a result he did. It ruined her life because she was never ever going to be able to get that picture back or go back in time and change what she had done.

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Amanda was not only cyber bullied, but also bullied physically. She had a guy friend who she started talking to and he told her he liked her, and he lead this poor girl on. He had a girlfriend, but invited her over one time to hook - up and she did. She said that it was a huge mistake. The guy's girlfriend found out and both of them including 15 other's had shown up at Amanda's new school, and had physically abused her. She said this made her feel like a joke in this world. She did not want to live anymore and drank bleach to try and kill herself, but it didn't work. When she got home from the hospital all she saw on Facebook were comments such as : "she deserved it.", "did you wash the mud out of your hair?", and "I hope shes dead." These kids had no sympathy for this girl who tried to kill herself because she was bullied.

Personally, there has been so much controversy on whether or not she deserved to die. There are just as many people giving sympathy as there are people who are saying she deserved to die or that she doesn't deserve sympathy. I think this girl did not deserve what she had been put through. She made mistakes and she was aware they were mistakes, but she tried moving on with her life but nobody would let her. That 32 year old man came back to constantly haunt her about the picture of her breasts. Other teenagers physically abused her and said she deserved to die, and that maybe she should try and drink a different bleach next time in hopes that it would kill her. This girl was physically, emotionally, and psychologically damaged. Everyone makes mistakes but that should not justify who someone is. I think some people need to show a little more respect towards Amanda Todd's death. I know there are numerous people who say that Amanda Todd does not deserve any sympathy or respect because there are people out there who die from cancer, or get murdered, etc. and she chose to end her life when she could have lived, but these people don't know what it was like to be in her shoes, these people don't know how she really felt or what she really went through. If you had a daughter who was bullied to death how would you feel if there were people who were disrespectful towards her death and said she deserved to die? I know I would definitely not feel good about it. It's heartbreaking to hear people dying so people need to either not say anything at all, or at least give respect.