Tuesday, 8/17/99
It makes me sick. Entirely sick. I've been seeing just how cold-hearted and insensitive some people really are. And it's almost more than I can handle. Even people I thought I knew well, showing their true colors.
A friend I knew on IRC passed away within the last week, 4 days ago to be exact. I didn't know him nearly as well as many, but I've talked with him and many of his local friends, quite often. To watch the sadness of his friends as they mourn their friend and try to deal with his death, while continuing in their every day lives is a very sad thing. To hear about how his family is dealing is quite sad as well. To have known this person, if even briefly and only on IRC and perhaps on the phone for a moment here or there, to know that he seemed like a great guy, and I had hopes of meeting him some day, to know that he's gone forever. It's a sad thing.
Yes, I'm talking about skOt for any of you who haven't figured that out. And what makes me so entirely sick is the attention that this tragic occourence has recieved--not the condolences, but the laughter, the jokes, and the childish, sick torment towards the people who loved and cared about skOt.
I can't comprehend it. The death of someone, anyone, to me--it's not funny in the least. And yet these people are laughing. And if that were not enough, they are making webpages to further make fun of the incident. And if *that* were not enough, they are on IRC /msg'ing and /join'ing channels of the people who were close to skOt, who lived by him and hung out with him daily.. Laughing, making jokes, making them feel like it's their fault.
I wish I could find the words to express just how angry this makes me. To watch people that I care about so hurt and to have random strangers try to make it worse? Have people no tact? Have people no morals? Have people no understanding?
And my final message.. My message to all of you people that laugh. That make jokes. That torment. I want you to think about it this way. Say it wasn't skOt, say it was your best friend. How would you feel? Would you be laughing then? And how the hell would you feel if you had people harassing you about it? Get a clue people.
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written: 8/17/99