I was wrong.
On June 15th, 1998, Ingeborg Greta Paduchowski took some sleeping pills, layed down and fell asleep. She never woke up. In her note, she left a message with her user name and password. She wanted her page deleted and her memory forgotten. But, how can we forget someone who touched all our lives?
It had been weeks since I talked to her, and I had begun to wonder if she'd gone off-line or was mad at me, or what. Then, the devastating news came from Jill. The message simply read:
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This is a Lie was the homepage done by my best friend Greta. Don't look for
any more updates. Greta committed suicide a few days ago.... Thanks for signing her guestbook. I know it meant a lot to her that people cared about what she thought. She didn't get a lot of that from her family or anyone else, really. |
When I read the word "suicide," there was just this big shock and rip inside me, as if someone had torn a piece of me out. I can't describe it any more than that - this big void that just grew bigger. It brought back memories of when Samantha, one of the MOTH girls, committed suicide around this time last year. I didn't know Samantha, and it really tore the other girls up. Suddenly, I know what it feels like to loose someone - even if we weren't close at all.
This image is what I'd like everyone to use to link back to this tribute page. It's a way to let the internet world know that there are teenagers out there who are upset and aren't just "going through a phase". This is the real thing. Remembering Greta will, hopefully, prevent other suicides by offerening help to those who need it. I don't know if this will work, but I really hope it will. This, I also know, is not the best tribute page, but honestly, I didn't know her as well as I'd liked to, and I've never had to make one before. I only hope that this could bring us together in our time or sorrow.
--Mary
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If you choose to link to this page, have a poem, song, artwork, or story you would like added to the memorial, or have a tribute page you would like linked from here, send all the nessicary information to carolyn@angelworld.org and it will be added as soon as possible. You did not have to know Greta in order to keep her memory alive and prevent this tragedy from happening again!
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