Morgan was a beautiful, talented, kind hearted, loving 13 year old girl. She was the youngest of 5, she and her identical twin Bailey were the babies however Bailey was older by 7 minutes. She grew up in Saint John, NB, Canada and on October 3 2013 our family moved to Fort McMurray,AB, Canada. All through school Morgan was picked on and called names, she was small and cried easily so she was an ea
sy target. Her sister always came to he defence. When we moved she had hoped things would change and get better. They didn't they got worse. She was able to make a few very close friends, however a couple of boys started making fun of her. They started calling her fat and ugly and telling her nobody liked her. Then it started online. They were telling her to go cut herself, to kill herself and that they hoped and wished she was dead. We deactivated her FB, however that was a bad thing as well as that was her means to keep in contact with family and friends back home. We watched her come out of her depression and begin to be happy again. She was seeing a councillor at school and the cutting had stopped. In the spring she started cutting again and became depressed again, we took her to the doctor who tried to get her into see someone ASAP. She wasn't eating, she was sleeping to much, and had lost interest in the things she loved. The start of June she started painting again, she started watching movies and going out with her sister again, she looked better. She had us all thinking she was coming out of it again, we thought we would have all summer to get her healthy again before she started junior high. She never made it. On June 27th 2014 Morgan ended her life, it was the first day of summer vacation and had spent the better part of the day with us before staying home after her vaccination saying she felt tired. That wasn't unusual for her after a vaccination. At around after 5:30pm as we had started home Bailey turned pale and said she didn't feel right, her stomach hurt, she became quiet. Once we got home we knew why. Morgan had left us that day with many unanswered questions, but we know we will never have those answers. She left a hole in all our hearts that will never be filled and left her twin feeling half of her is gone. But we don't blame her. We refuse to blame anyone for doing what they did to her to push her over the edge. You see it wasn't until after she had passed did we learn she had created another FB account and blocked her family, she was still receiving messages and getting bullied online and she hid it my guess fearing she would be in trouble for keeping something from us. What she didn't realize is she hid more then she could possibly handle on her own. People need to know their words can hurt people more then they realize. They need to learn that forms of bullying can lead to mental health issues. Those issues can lead to addictions, to self harm and su***de. Through Morgan's Mission we hope to bring awareness to bullying, mental health and su***de. To help those who have been bullied find themselves and their voice, and to make sure people who are bullies get the help they need to be kinder to others, and sadly for those who refuse to change we want punishments for those so they learn it isn't right to harm another person. And for parents we want them to know the warning signs, to keep lines of communication open to their children and teens and more importantly know that it all starts at home! When you think of they aren't watching or listening, TRUST ME they are! So we ask you to help support us and our partners who are also our friends, raise awareness and help stop bullying and end the stigma around mental health! From our family to your thank you. Morgan leaves behind her parents (Natasha & Greg), 2 older sisters (Amber & Emillee), her older brother (Austin), her twin Bailey, a niece (April), grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and many close friends.
