A Tragedy

I'm not really sure whether it was a Friday or a Saturday when it happened. A girl, two years my junior in our school decided one night to end it. She did so with a damn belt. The story goes that her parents only found out the next morning when she did not come down for breakfast.

Our school's population is small. Meaning that something of this magnitude is sure to spread very quickly and it did. Almost all of us know each other, if not by name, then by face. Pretty soon, the students are arriving in droves to her funeral. I was not one of them.

Why? I only know her by face that's one. Second, funerals annoy me. The sight of so many people not actually giving a damn about the deceased is enough to anger me. What really bothers me is that the church refuses to give the final rites to a suicide. Sure, it is in their religion that all suicides go to hell, but then where is the mercy and forgiveness in that?

This is all so wrong and I hope that everything will work out for her parents and for the school. A place that small does not welcome death freely.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008