Reporting 12-year old girl committing suicide: Media Sensationalism!

[yokam]

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What can we do to make a change? Or inflict change even at our own lives the least?

Other than thinking too much about politics, people should start re-thinking and re-assessing about their own selves. People nowadays, most people who are usually blessed with a good, or should I say a more comfortable life, is living a very lavish and materialistic lifestyle.

[Vinellax]

so sad tungud lng sa poverty.

[brownprose]

What can we do to make a change? Or inflict change even at our own lives the least?

Other than thinking too much about politics, people should start re-thinking and re-assessing about their own selves. People nowadays, most people who are usually blessed with a good, or should I say a more comfortable life, is living a very lavish and materialistic lifestyle.

agree...u know what, kung moadto ka sa casino u will see how much money is wasted there...some people can afford to lose their lucks on the gambling table by the thousands or even millions a night WITHOUT ever thinking that there are people/families whose wish that they'd be lucky enough to find on their tables something to eat for the day!

[^-^ eLay ^-^]

so sad,nakaluha baya pud ko ani pgkita nko sa news...
tungod sa kalisod wa na makaya sa bata,mao ngpakamatay nlng..

[godsaint]

I hope other people who are living abundantly would have enough time to care for our less fortunate brothers.Instead of wasting money,why not share some for the poor?even in some other ways just to help.Clothes,foods unused clothings etc.For our politicians who are using money of the people for their own why not use it as livelihood programs?You cannot bring this money when you go to hell.We filipinos have so much negative attitude.Instead of helping our fellow Filipinos,we are more hospitable to foreigners.We are treating these abusive aliens as gods.There are so many rich people here in the Philippines and if we are just giving our share to our brothers,we can help this govt.feed the hungry.can you imagine how many tons of food are wasted everyday form just Jolibee and Mcdonalds outlets?If Filipinos are not lavished in eating ,surely hunger will be lessen.I pray that the girl will be the last one to commit suicide because of poverty.

[LytSlpr]

i blame the gov't coz wala sila klaro nga agenda which will help solve poverty... i blame GMA...

somehow i expected this radical comment. question is, did ANY president really alleviated the plight of the poor and substantially minimized poverty in this country? NADA! so it is not the president's fault and we cannot also invoke command responsibility being her (GMA) running the country.

regardless of any external factors, forces or circumstance, ultimately we are the masters of our life so if we intentionally end it abruptly, then it is nobody's fault but it's owner.

[Velvett]

What can we do to make a change? Or inflict change even at our own lives the least?

Other than thinking too much about politics, people should start re-thinking and re-assessing about their own selves. People nowadays, most people who are usually blessed with a good, or should I say a more comfortable life, is living a very lavish and materialistic lifestyle.

personally, i'm convinced more than ever to live frugally (check out Frugality thread in Family Matters). reasons:
1. increased joy-to-stuff ratio (one is more creative, resourceful, and happier when consuming things economically)
2. we always have exta for our brothers and sisters in need

yes. our trash is somebody else's treasure.

[brownprose]

somehow i expected this radical comment. question is, did ANY president really alleviated the plight of the poor and substantially minimized poverty in this country? NADA! so it is not the president's fault and we cannot also invoke command responsibility being her (GMA) running the country.

regardless of any external factors, forces or circumstance, ultimately we are the masters of our life so if we intentionally end it abruptly, then it is nobody's fault but it's owner.

Poverty-alleviation is a primary responsibility of any president or government. It is a task not only incidental to the functions of a president or just merely an economic imperative -- it is a MORAL RESPONSIBILITY of any conscientious president to make sure that the most basic or fundamental of rights of people to food, clothing, school and shelter are met. And just because no president had/has ever solved poverty in this country doesn't mean he/she is absolved or not faulted for deaths related to it.

The death of that 12-yr old girl was not just one of those ordinary suicides we see. Her suicide was one honest "economic act" in which she think she had no control over.

[Tin_Tin]

kaluoy sad.

just wondering, since it's a sin to commit suicide, ma unsa naman lang ang iyang kalag?

she's probably burning in hell right now.....

[nab_uang]

the news also shock in singapore!!!!