I am writing to you today to address the article you have recently posted about the suicide of a teen girl named, Amanda Todd.

I have seen the videos and comments made about this teens recent death. I do think bullying is wrong, but I also think we are dealing with this the wrong way. The death of the young 15 year old is very sad, and I understand that people need time to grieve, however, most of the people who are giving their condolences have never met her, and have most likely never heard of her until the day we all heard she had taken her own life. If they did know her, they should be saying how terribly sorry they are for not having said their kind words when she was still here. Amanda's "gutt-wrenching," video is very powerful, although, it seems to me that most of the bullying was brought on by her poor choices. No one deserves to be bullied, but no girl with any self respect would sleep with another girls boyfriend. Maybe that was the problem all along, that she just didn't respect herself. We would have a better understanding of what was really going on in her head if 1/4th of the people who are making comments and videos in her honour actually knew her, and cared when she was alive.

Your article claims that she was close with many teachers and students are her new school. If so, then why did none of them know her intentions? Her video was posted on September 7th 2012, and her death was October 10th 2012. That's a whole month. She told people her story while she was still alive, which seems to had only made people bully her more, but now that she is dead everyone is watching the video and feeling so bad and saying they wish they could have done something. Well, they probably could have because it was released to the public for 33 days.

I understand that this is a very sad situation, but your article suggests that all of the