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| How do we Fight Back after the Children are Dead? |
| Saturday, 11 December 2010 09:56 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The numbers for this Fall’s suicides mount up, and bullying is being held accountable. Asher Brown, Seth Walsh, Tyler Clementi, Hope Witsell and Raymond Chase, all dead. All dead through suicide, committed by their own hand, all the (alleged) victims of bullying. These children will have no Christmas. These families will spend their first Christmas ever without one of their family members present. The communities that these children are from will wonder how to rally to support these families as they live through this sadness and family loss over this important holiday. Perhaps some of the kids and youth in these communities are wondering what they could have done differently that could have avoided this tragedy. Everyone feels bad. Everyone feels awkward and sad, and everyone wonders how to move forward.
We have to move forward, because there is no going back. In real life, there are no second chances. There is no do over, there is no repeat, rewind, redo or changing the ending. Dead people don’t get up. This is the end. This is not a video game. In the video game world, the person on screen being shot gets up 9 more times before he or she is truly dead. But not in real life. The person bullied and picked on in the half hour “made for TV” show comes back in the next episode. But not in real life. In real life, every day is the final episode. Every action is the last time, the final play. The game is over only once. We are not going to meet next season for a rematch, next year for another round, or next week for another face-off. There is no fighting back once the children are dead. It makes no difference how sorry someone might be. It makes no difference to the outcome that no mistake, meaning no death, was intended.
How do we teach people that there is no rewind button in life. How many bullies would have done it differently if they knew the person they were victimizing was going to commit suicide because of that taunting?
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