1. Death of an Angel - Leelah Alcorn
Her parents had taken away everything she had that gave her access to social media and her friends, and soon took her out of public school and enrolled her into an online school. Alcorn decided to take her life on December 28, 2014, and scheduled her suicide note to be posted online a few hours after her death, the notes saying, "I have decided I've had enough. ... After forty-eight hours of her passing, her Tumblr suicide note had been seen 82,000 times, and by the morning of December 31, it was reposted 200,000 times. ... Her suicide note spread like a wildfire, and is making peo...
- Word Count: 1188
- Approx Pages: 5
- Grade Level: High School