It is sad that even at this day, people do not take the issue of mental health seriously. Depression and suicidal thoughts are real and our choice of words can either make or break a person. In the case of this teenagere, people’s response to the poll broke her.
According to ‘The Sarawak Tribune’, David Emelia, a 16 year old girl has committed suicide in Kuching, Sarakwak in Malaysia, after an Instagram poll that she carried out showed that the majority voted for her to die.
The teenager’s body was discovered sprawled on the road on May 13 at around 8pm.
She is believed to have jumped to her death from a rented unit in Batu Kara New Township. Authorities also found her Instagram poll which she posted prior to her death, Emelia reportedly created the poll at around 3pm on that day.
The poll asked:
“Really important! Help me choose D/L”
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“D” and “L” presumably stood for “die” and “live”.
Apparently, 69 percent had voted for “D”.
Davia Emelia had also reportedly took to Facebook to say that she was “tired” of life:
“WANNA QUIT (MY) F*CKING LIFE, I’M TIRED.”
According to Sarawak Tribune, both Emelia’s Indonesian mother and father are separated and both have remarried. Her father rarely returned to see her after marrying a Vietnamese woman. Her mother remarried a man with a 15-year-old son.
It is suspected that these events added to the stress of the teenage girl, leading her to commit suicide. Her suicide has been classified as a “sudden death” by authorities, who do not suspect foul play.
