A South American news story

In the past month, or even the past two months, we had a couple of sad events happening in our country. They were covered by the media for weeks, some has been forgotten and some other ones remain in people's and media memory, and keep updating. We all know which were these events.

The one that got me the most was the suicide of a man that leaped from the 25th floor of the Costanera Center the past saturday may 3rd. Interesting and sad, doesn't it?. But the most interesting part of this story, for me, was all that hype that the event had in the media, and particularly the video of that exact moment. I gotta say, if it wasn't for that video (or those videos) I wouldn't have noticed it until, I think, two days or less, because I don't usually watch the news or read the newspaper. So, because of the video, I think, everyone noticed it even before the TV news, and so many ended with that video right in front of their noses without even looking for it. Thats very interesting if you ask me.

Not so much has been said about it in the television (or maybe I haven't noticed), because I didn't see the media searching for the cause of it, contacting some relative, or even giving the name of the person. All I know about it, is that the man was wearing a shirt that reads: "paz y amor" as depicted in some photographs. Some people understand the event as some kind of "anti-capitalism pacifist" expression. Maybe they're right, we'll never know.

I saw people uploading several videos of impressions of the event. Some call him a coward, some a hippie, and some think it would be a good idea for him not to do that in public. Some others attack people who acted wrong while filming the event by calling them stupid, and even wishing those people got raped, what I think is really stupid and so friendly-moral.  I personally think everyone is responsible for its own life, and so they have the right to choose whenever to die or not, whatever the reason it is. Bye!