Bully: a documentary

   It was frustrating watching the documentary "Bully" because it was sad to see those kids going through so much. I see bullying a lot different now after watching the film because you never know what exactly someone may be going through and one thing can lead to another and the bullying can make someone take their own life. I was really shocked at some of the things that the children went through on a daily basis. Children are going to school to learn and who knows if they can even focus on their academics because of the bullying. I wasn't very aware of any bullying in elementary, middle school, or high school because our school district had a strict policy on bullying. Everyone knew that if you were to bully someone in school or even out of school that disciplinary actions were going to be taken. On the districts website it tells everyone how many bullying offences have happened each year within each of the schools in the district.
   If my son were to come home and complained about someone bullying him on the bus I would be pretty upset about it. I would tell him to stick up for himself and not let people do those things to him but I would also go to the school about the situation and maybe even the bus driver. I would have no tolerance for the bullying so I would continue to go to the school until the situation was under control. If the assistant principle were to act the way she did in the film towards my child I may have a few choice words for her. The assistant principal seemed to get an attitude with Alex when he told her that she had done nothing about the situation the first time he told her he had been bullied. That is no way to act as an assistant principal and by saying, "well he didn't sit on your head again did he?" is not very reassuring to the child. There are more appropriate ways the assistant principal could have went about the situation but she chose to act in a way that seemed she didn't care and that if anyone were to bully Alex they would get a not put in their chart which in my opinion is not that scary. I remember in my high school if you even thought about bullying another student then you would get worse discipline than the children in the film.
   I have never experienced hash forms of bullying but I have experienced it. I don't think that the people saying the things realized that it was bullying but it was. I would get made fun of for my glasses making my eyes look big. Like hello, I cannot help that! It's okay to be different than everyone else and kids these days need to realize that people are different and it is not okay to bully someone because of that. This documentary was very sad and it hurts to see people get bullied. 

Assisted Suicide: Know the Facts

    According to the Merriam-Webster medical dictionary, physician assisted suicide is know as, "suicide by a patient facilitated by means or information (as a drug prescription or indication of the lethal dosage) provided by a physician who is aware of how the patient intends to use such means or information". In the United States 4 out of 50 states have legalized physician assisted suicide. It is not ethical to say that patients have the right to die when they aren't in their right state of mind, when physicians have taken the Hippocratic Oath, and because miracles do happen.

    In life there can be miracles when horrific things occur. Terry Wallis is a real life miracle from waking up from a 19 year coma. At the age of 20 Terry was in a severe car accident on July 13th, 1984 which put him into a coma. A few months after the accident Terry had been in a minimally conscious state but the doctors then declared him to be brain dead. On June 11th, 2003 Terry had woken up and started to talk with his first word being "mom". After he had said, "mom" he continued talking and even remembered things.  

    In 2008 Jordan Taylor was a normal nine year old boy from Hillsboro, Texas until he was in a car accident. He had suffered an orthopedic decapitation in the accident which is where his spinal cord was still in tact but his head and neck were separated. Physicians operated on Jordan by reattaching his skull with titanium rods and a metal plate. The physicians believed that Jordan had a one-to-two percent chance of living after the operation.  Jordan recovered fully from the surgery and was back to school in 4-5 months.

    Those two people are perfect examples of miracles. If physicians would have assisted in a suicide for either of those patients it would have been terrible. Not many people would think that someone could wake from a 19 year coma but it happened. If Terry's family would have requested a lethal drug to end his life after declared brain dead he wouldn't have had the opportunity to be alive today remembering things and talking. When Jordan's mother knew he had a one-to-two percent chance of living after his surgery and she had decided to ask for a lethal drug to end her sons pain then he wouldn't be up walking like a normal child again. Miracles do happen and when physicians are assisting in suicides it takes away a miracle that could happen with some patients.