Teenage Florida school shooting survivor takes her own life

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A US teenager who survived the deadly school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High last year has taken her own life after struggling with survivor's guilt.

Her father, Andrew Pollack, expressed his sympathy for Sydney's parents in an interview with the Miami Herald.

"It's terrible what happened. Meadow and Sydney were friends for a long, long time," Mr Pollack said.An online fundraising page has raised more than $US70,000 to cover the costs of Sydney's funeral. Fundraising organisers Brett and Blair Israel are family friends of the Aiellos and wrote on the page that it was a"privilege" to have had Sydney in their lives.

"Sydney spent 19 years writing her story as a beloved daughter, sister and friend to many," the GoFundMe page reads. "She lit up every room she entered. She filled her days cheerleading, doing yoga and brightening up the days of others."Sydney, we will miss you and always love you."to mark the one-year anniversary of the shootingFewer than 300 of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High's 3,200 students attended school on the anniversary, with classes cut short so students would not be present from 2:20pm — the moment when gunfire first erupted on campus a year earlier.

 

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It is actually an assumption that the trauma she experienced was the cause of her suicide. That is not a valid way to look at the problem, you need to look at all of the survivors & see if there is a statistically significant rise in suicides amongst them, as found in abused kids

And USA cannot deal with the potential for change in gun ownership laws..............

Survivor guilt us a terrible thing and lack of mental health help for this child seeing her bestie killed is so sad.

Horrible

Well that’s different ! Finished the shooters job . Very sad .

😢so very sad,

Terribly sad. Another victim of unreasonable hate. Vale

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