Yikes. My heart goes out to his family and loved ones.

Man, i hated rotary phones. You had to start all the way from the beginning if you made a mistake and didn’t dial the reich number.

Ok, I teared up.

I know. I was flipping through the memorial slide show at The Guardian, and I couldn’t stop looking at his amazing hair. He would have been devastatingly handsome with a few wrinkles and grey hair

He was so handsome. I know that’s shallow, I appreciate his musical talent, but damn he would have been a great looking old dude.

I think it’s a whole package thing, including having a notable personality. There just aren’t that many models that have personalities that people take note of. She does have an interesting walk with a natural presence, takes great photos, and at least 25% of her fame is her eyebrows.

I was shocked to see my cousin’s 13 year old daughter brag about being mean to another girl at school for being weird. I admonished her only to have her mother (my cousin) basically say “What? That kid IS weird, so...”

This is the part that turns my sadness into rage.

Fuck you people who raise kids who bully cancer patients

I can’t even begin to comprehend why the school wouldn’t allow a message of positivity to appear on their walls. I understand school administrations have rules about this kind of thing, but given the amount of bullying in schools and kids like Bethany who need empowerment, I can’t understand why they wouldn’t let her…

The detail about not being able to hang the anti-bullying posters the day she died is especially sad.

ok, fine, but if someone is on a verge of suicide and they going to do it, they will find a way, gun or not.

There needs to be a group for kids to voice their abuse.

I hope the school administrators, the bullies, and the bullies’ parents live with this guilt until their dying days.

“But, but, but...the family has already suffered enough...”

I hate guns - fuck guns, don’t own guns - but teaching this girl about gun safety would not have prevented this. She was trying to harm herself. It wasn’t an accident.

Gun safety wouldn’t have helped her, but it is a good general point to be made regardless.

There has to be some kind of criminal negligence charge. If there’s not a law that holds gun owners responsible for hiding their guns in cookie jars or wherethefuckever, there needs to be.

The bullying element has grown SO much now that kids have technology at their fingertips 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Used to you could go home and be safe from hate, but not anymore. Bullying (combined with mental health issues) is what landed my daughter in a psychiatric hospital last month with suicidal thoughts.…