Vas Népe / The People of Vas County

22 July 1986

THE QUEEN IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE QUEEN?

It seems to be like the oriental king sacrifices. They believed that the strength, knowledge and beauty of the ancestor will be inherited by the descendent and soul immortally moves from body to body. These were the times of the divine kings. I do not intend to be morbid or tactless but there can be perceived certain symbolic meaning in the fact that a young girl, who has been the first Hungarian beauty queen after decades, took her own life just a few weeks before the new beauty contest. All death are tragic but the death of the young and beautiful standing in the bright side of the life, in the lime-light is much more heartbreaking. As Nature can not be blamed for it, not for suicide at all.

She departed this life with tragic suddenness - This was the headlines of the news and later facing with the Hungarian curse, articles were searching the answer for the question, why. Hungarian Curse? Not in the least! The beauty queen was predestined for such an ending, namely for a beautiful and touching burial ceremony, which was obviously visited by a lot of people intending to cover the grave with bunches of flowers, though, few know the origin of this custom: the burnet, myrrh and the scent of flowers extinguish the odour of the death. So simple. I'm bitter, why to deny it.

As far as she was concerned everything seemed to be all right with the contests, prizes, huge amount of money, success in Vienna and Malta as well as the advertising contracts… Then it turned out to be that nothing was right at all. Only one thing went smooth that as usual in this country others turned her success to their advantage which cost the life of a human being but who cares about it. We couldn't help it. She couldn't stand splendour, the next will cope with it. However, it was not the splendour, she couldn't bear but the cheekiness of wicked and irresposible bastards playing with a girl being nearly a child. Actually, they were motivated by sole financial interests. How many deaths are people of their breed responsible for? How many items could be deleted from our statistics on suicides without their involvement or if others murmuring against them, would act upon their words. Who is responsible? They, you, me and we all.

So the destiny of the former and now the late beauty queen is not unique, neither terrific nor elevated, at all. The whole story is full of two-bit, petty elements, and nothing but tight-fistedness is reflected instead of the well-deserved big money. Dirtiness, which makes human beings vomit. I am sorry to say but whatever tough is sounds: it might be better for her. She could be praised to heaven in any corner of the world but here, where she was played off against her parents, friends and herself, against her own life. She was cleaned out or they tried to clean her out, all the same. Her death was the last deed of irony for those, who played foul: Look! Make use of me now! Let me be a subject to marketing now, let me be a source of money now! Here and now, covered with flowers. Hungarian destiny? For God's sake, it is.

I would like to know, what the new beauty queen will feel being crowned with the crown first worn by Her. It might even not come to her silly mind that this is the crown of the Death. God save the Queen!

(halmágyi)

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