I read an article about a girl called Slađana Vidović.
She was 16 years old when she commited suicide by hanging back in 2008.
What disturbed me were the circumstances around it.
She immigrated to the US from Croatia to a place that was considered one of the “100 best places to live at.”
There at highschool, she got bullied mercilessly. She got mocked because of her heavy accent, was even beaten and pushed on some occasions. She was called “Slut-Jana” and other nasty names. They threatened her to go back to where she came from.
At first, Slađana defended herself. But after some time she stopped because she couldn’t handle it anymore.
Then one day, on October 2, 2008, she committed suicide by tying one end of a rope around her neck and the other around a bed post before jumping out her bedroom window.
Her bullies even attended her funeral, which was an open casket funeral.
She wore a sparkling pink dress. A dress she wanted to wear at her prom.
A girl reportedly giggled when she looked at Slađana. Her bullies made fun of her body and the way it was dressed, calling her ugly.
Can you wrap your head around that? They didn’t even feel remorse or show respect at the funeral.
As far as I know, the bullies never got into serious trouble. -Just like how it is in most cases.
And that disturbs the hell out of me. How sick must a person be, to bully someone to death? Let alone not even feel the slightest remorse? To even have the nerve to make fun of their victim’s corpse?
To me such people are straight up psychopaths and a real danger to society.
Cases like this one -and many others- should be called murder case.
Because this is what it is. You as a bully, were responsible for their death, when they would be still alive, if you wouldn’t have been involved. That is murder, it’s a form of murder.
It disturbs me that such people get away with it so easily. It disturbs me that they are way too often not faced with a harsh punishment. It disturbs me that they are not seen for what they are; murderers.