Over $700k donated to bullied N.Y. granny - World - Canoe.ca
Over $700,000 donated! After the host websites, etc take their percentage she'll net just over $650,000.
I have to say, this is kind of sitting like a rock in my stomach. Not to take anything away from her or her family, I think it's great that she had this support and that so many people thought of her and what she was subjected to. But I just wonder, if this one incident of an adult being bullied by kids is enough to spur so many people into action, where is all the attention when so many very young children are being bullied into suicide? I mean, this is not a vacation fund, this amount is more akin to a retirement fund and a pretty healthy one at that. That's great for her but then everyone just seems to turn around and go about their business and ignores the very real problem of children taking their own lives because they just can't take it anymore. Where are the rallying cries and website fundraisers dedicated to that?
I don't know, maybe I'm not articulating it quite right. But this just seems so excessive to me, almost to the point of being grotesque. Something is just not sitting right, maybe not because of where the focus is but because of where the focus is not.