Bloggers react to 12-year-old child’s suicide

Posted by karlom87 on November 10, 2007 · Leave a Comment

It will be so much the worse for us
If we don’t believe that life can be changed. *

Reading the depressing tale of 12-year-old Mariannet Amper’s suicide and lamentation for her family’s poverty in a diary earlier this week made me sad, knowing how it has come to illustrate the degree of desperation of our people and the general sense of hopelessness now pervading the archipelago.

Many of our Church leaders have expressed concern over the story with one Bishop Eliezer Pascua of the National Council of Churches of the Philippines asking, “We have called them ‘poor’ and ‘eyesores’ but what do you call a society which made them like this?”

The militant Left immediately saw this as another issue against the government. At the same time, opinion columns and news commentaries were busy linking the child’s family’s poverty to the continuing brouhaha over the source of the Palace cash bribes.

Not much differs in the blogosphere where an increasing number of bloggers have shared reactions on Mariannet’s death by suicide.

The Patsada Karajaw Nation reposts “some of her heart wrenching entries of her diary”:

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