why is it that when a girl is kidnapped the media says "she went missing"? she didn't went missing. she's dead
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I think that when something terrible happens, its human nature to want to be optimistic. Can you imagine how it would feel to hear that someone you know was "dead" instead of being "missing"? It's like killing all hope that they may still be alive. It doesn't happen often, but miracles do happen and it doesn't hurt to have a little hope. The media is not often very considerate of the words they choose, but when they say "went missing" they do sound somewhat compassionate.
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I understand what you are saying. Last night when I went to bed there was an Amber Alert on TV (missing children), it ended in the death of one of the children and the other is in critical condition. This morning I get up, another Amber Alert...\nGod is waiting and watching. God Bless You!
1115291
that is a good question!!!!  she just disappeared one day!!!  i have no clue
844030
No miley's mom isnt really dead. thats just on the show.
1080568
Wow I know the news is upsetting but you need to calm down before you give yourself a stroke.\n\nIf they were really good soldiers they would not have been abducted in the first place, now they are the pawns of those whacked out insurgents (some of whom are probably just as pissed off as you about us blowing the $#!T out of Abu Musab Al Zarqawi last week) who will try to use them as leverage. When they see that they can't they will either release them or kill them. Either way the insurgents will most likely be killed eventually. Those soldiers knew the kind of danger they were in, save your indignation for when innocents are killed or abducted.
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I have read that Mischa Barton is not going to be back, so I think she probably IS dead.  I read that she wants to pursue a movie career.
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Because there is no law that people have to call the media the moment something happens, even though the media wants you to think they are the most important institution.  Police and medical crews were called immediately.  The owner of the range was given the call on telling the media, and she did that - the next day.
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Well, the victim still lives with the full impact of the crime.  A woman who was raped doesn't suddenly become "unraped" and only assaulted, she still has to live with the results of the actual crime.  A person who was shot during a robbery does not suddenly have the bullet hole close and all the damage undone just because the scum criminal got his charges reduced.\n\nSo, instead of sitting and whining that there still is a record of what you did, just be glad you got off way easier than your victim(s) did.
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I love Lost but was so disappointed to see Ana-Lucia get shot. She's my fave female character. Does anyone else think it's weird that right after every unmarried woman who has sex on the show dies? (last time it was Shannon after she slept with Sayid)
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I was working a shift as a producer at a News/Talk radio station when it happened.  I remember the news-wire machines all going crazy printing out information.  We had to break into regular programing to make the announcement.  I remember our phone ringing off the hook with people wanting to know why we were playing such a sick joke.  Sadly... we had to explain, it was no joke.  It is amazing how tragic events affix themselves to your memory.  It is pretty much the same thing in regards to 9-11.  I still remember where I was, what I was doing, and everything about that day.\n\nIt is terribly sad that Princess Di had to run from paparazzi.  If you ask me, there should be a law limiting how close these people can get to celebs, or people of prominence.  No picture is worth putting someones life in danger.
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her death wasn't filmed, it was implied.
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they don't bury survivors.  But here's one for you, though it isn't really a question:\n\nA sessna(sp?) crashed into a graveyard over in Germany.  They're still digging up bodies.\n\n\na sessna is a really small plane, that's why its funny.  nevermind.  It's funnier when  you say it verbally.
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The only reason they are making such a big deal about this is because she is a rich white girl.  Poor children and minority children disappear everyday and the news/media forgets all about them.\n\nShe is a "Poster Child for White America"\nIt is my honest belief that she is dead.  My prayers are with the family, but it is time for the healing process to begin and people to move on.\n\nI wasn't trying to be racist (the third person). I know what it feels like to experience it and feel it and I'm not trying to spread it.  But the fact remains that race DOES matter even in 2006.  That's part of the reason why such little attention is given to minority children who disappear all the time (but you would never even know their names, because the media just does not want to focus on it.)\nLike I said my PRAYERS are with her family, but instead of the media focusing all the attention on 1 girl for 14-15 months, why don't they spend even a day (1 single day) on another child.  Don't tell me race doesn't matter, because it does.  Racism is alive and well, and if you don't see it, then its because you don't want to (choose not) to see it.  I have been called a  "N i g g e r" and a "Chink" on so many different occasions. It's there and even in this case.\n\n* Well it's obvious that we have differing opinions on this subject matter.  So I won't continue any further.  Thanks for your insights though, America is a diverse place and is always open for debate, thats what makes it great.  Have a blessed day.  *  TNH
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We don't know that she actually said that.   I doubt it.   She is a parent and grandmother and understands what it would be like to have lost someone in war.    She lost a child herself many years ago.
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She is the lighthouse keeper. She turned out the light, the ship couldn't see, so it crashed. She felt guilty and killed herself.
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Because her passing affected you more than it did the others. My daughter passed away 7 years ago. It seemed that everyone but the immediate family dreamed about her, and very realistically.\nI think it might have been because we couldn't accept her death as easily as others....Or, it was MORE real to us...
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She did die.  She was killed by Micheal.