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The Heartbreaking Poem A14yr Old Girl Wrote Before She Killed Herself by homesteady(m): 1:07pm On Nov 02, 2013

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[size=30]My daughter's schoolmates
bullied her to death... then
dared to hug me at her
funeral: Mother of 14-year-
old whose suicide poem
moved Britain gives heart-
rending interview
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•Schoolgirl Izzy Dix was found hanged by her
mother at home last month
•Not long before her suicide, she wrote a
heartbreaking poem about her ordeal. She
called it I Give Up
•Some of those who arrived to mourn her
were directly implicated in the bullying,
says her mother Gabbi


The irony of Izzy Dix’s posthumous popularity
isn’t lost on her grieving mother. Her
schoolmates flocked to the 14-year-old’s
memorial service last month. Tearful teenagers
lined the route, lit candles, and released
balloons that streaked the sky with colour.
‘There was actually an issue about how many
youngsters to expect,’ admits her 45-year-old
mum Gabbi.
‘We knew some pupils from her school wanted to
come, but then we discovered that kids from
other schools were sending out plus-one
invitations online, treating it like an event. That
was stopped. There were still lots of young
people, though.’
The presence of her daughter’s true friends
provided ‘much, much comfort’, Gabbi admits.
But her feelings about some of the other
attendees are more ambivalent.
For Izzy, a gifted pupil who had ambitions to go
to Oxford University, had taken her own life
after complaining she could no longer cope with
being bullied, both at school and online.
Not long before her suicide, she wrote a
heartbreaking poem about her ordeal.
She called it I Give Up, and it reads:
‘They begin to tell me that nobody wants me
there. They tell me to leave and that I am not
wanted.’
Devastatingly, it concludes: ‘Another piece of me
chiselled away by their cruel remarks and
perceptions. I give up.’
Many, if not all, of the youngsters present at the
service would have been aware of Izzy’s torment.
She had fled a Spanish lesson in tears the day
before her death when the jibes and sniggers —
‘the usual stuff’, says her mother, bitterly — got
too much.
Some of those who arrived to mourn her were
directly implicated in the bullying, says Gabbi.
One was a leading perpetrator.
‘Some of the bullies stayed away from the
funeral; some didn’t,’ she says. ‘This particular
girl was a ringleader, yet she was one of the first
people to step forward to hug me. I was in too
much of a state to do anything other than accept
it.’
It is only six weeks since Izzy died, and Gabbi’s
grief is as raw as it gets. She was a single
mother; Izzy was her only child.
She was ‘my daughter, my best friend, my
everything’, says Gabbi.

Source - www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2483851/Izzy-Dixs-mother-gives-heart-rending-interview.html
Re: The Heartbreaking Poem A14yr Old Girl Wrote Before She Killed Herself by bigfree: 1:11pm On Nov 02, 2013
kids in refugee camps see war, death and hunger but still have a reason to live.kids in america see MTV, good education and food to eat but lack the will to live.
As i learnt in the movie '' Batman- the dark knight arises'', the fear of death is the ultimate motive for survival.
Re: The Heartbreaking Poem A14yr Old Girl Wrote Before She Killed Herself by homesteady(m): 1:22pm On Nov 02, 2013
‘This
particular
girl was a ringleader, yet she was one of
the first
people to step forward to hug me. I was in
too
much of a state to do anything other than
accept
it.’

Can you imagine! shocked what is this world turning to??
If I was the dead girl mother, I'll make sure I pluck out all the hair from her useless head! Damn the consequences angry after killing my daughter, you are coming to hug me chei!
Re: The Heartbreaking Poem A14yr Old Girl Wrote Before She Killed Herself by Dannylux: 1:30pm On Nov 02, 2013
Heartbreaking cry
Re: The Heartbreaking Poem A14yr Old Girl Wrote Before She Killed Herself by Nobody: 1:33pm On Nov 02, 2013

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