Teen Commits Suicide Due to Bullying

[CaptainAce$$]

I can totally understand this because I have been in the same situation myself and even considered suicide at one point. It's a lonely place to be. It's easy for people to say ignore or tell a teacher however it's not as easy as you would imagine. If you ignore, the bullies bully you more. If you tell a teacher, they don't listen and don't believe you. Bullies mock and taunt you behind the teachers back. Teachers don't have a clue what has been going on and therefore you are seen as the bully when you finally snap and react. I've been bullied all of my school life for only one reason: I have aspergers. It's a sad and cruel world out there.
Spirit

[Accipiter]

completely agree, what a bizarre quote.

If you were born into a living hell, from not being in existence, to being brought into a world that has taught you pain, sadness, fear & loneliness. Then you take away what birth gave you, the worst gift ever given to you, life, for the state of not existing again.

Because in a life where the only things taught to you are that, the best time of your life is the time you can't remember. So you welcome death because it takes from you the gift that gave you hell.

I personally think the quote is accurate, it was from a Greek philosopher Epicurus apart from the last bit, which is from a film that adds this onto what Epicurus said, which I still believe is true.

Epicurus merely said:

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

All it merely states is that we fear something we cannot control, so it is pointless to fear death and more wise to fear birth because birth gives you these fears.

[HawtNerd]

So stupid these days.. Bullying's gotten way to out of hand...And now that our society is getting much more well. !@#@'ed up... It's gonna get worse and worse

[danzooo]

The speculation in this thread is unreal. How do you all know that this story is how it seems? Granted, a young life was taken at the end of the day which is sad, but how do you all know that he wasn't an attention seeking little **** that asked for it? If he was getting bullied so much for "wearing Lady Gaga t-shirts to school every day", why didn't he stop wearing them?

I'm not trying to be pedantic or rude but as the saying goes, there's two sides to every story.

R.I.P anyway though, pal. Such a young life lost is a tragedy.

[HawtNerd]

The speculation in this thread is unreal. How do you all know that this story is how it seems? Granted, a young life was taken at the end of the day which is sad, but how do you all know that he wasn't an attention seeking little **** that asked for it? If he was getting bullied so much for "wearing Lady Gaga t-shirts to school every day", why didn't he stop wearing them?

I'm not trying to be pedantic or rude but as the saying goes, there's two sides to every story.

R.I.P anyway though, pal. Such a young life lost is a tragedy.

Why would he stop wearing them? And have them control his life? He stood proud to what he was symbolizing.

[danzooo]

Why would he stop wearing them? And have them control his life? He stood proud to what he was symbolizing.

If something, something that you have control over in your life, is facilitating something as serious as bullying, and to the extent that it causes you to contemplate suicide, you would stop it.

If you wore pink Crocs to school once, and everyone teased you for a couple of days then stopped, then that would be fine. But if you wore them every day, and people sent you hate mail and teased you really badly every day for wearing them... why would you continue wearing them? :S

[HawtNerd]

If something, something that you have control over in your life, is facilitating something as serious as bullying, and to the extent that it causes you to contemplate suicide, you would stop it.

If you wore pink Crocs to school once, and everyone teased you for a couple of days then stopped, then that would be fine. But if you wore them every day, and people sent you hate mail and teased you really badly every day for wearing them... why would you continue wearing them? :S

You have a point but still. I'm just going by the fact of "Never listen to the bully" ... Be the bigger man right? Live your life the way YOU want to. Sure enough, most can't handle to much hate mail. But still.. If I wore croc's and was bothered enough to take them off. I'd wear them, but that's me...

to young to die.... R.I.P

[Slowpoke]

Bullying is wrong yes, I don't know what the USA are doing in their education system in terms of it but obviously it isn't being dealt with well. However, in my eyes, people like him are cowards.

What a misinformed statement that is. Killing yourself because bullies are making your life a living misery isn't cowardly, at all. He clearly had no-one to turn to, have you actually read the quoted tweets? Every suicide is different and not all suicides are cowardly, at all. To be honest I'd never call any suicides cowardly. I think they're tragic and desperate.

[Stephen]

If something, something that you have control over in your life, is facilitating something as serious as bullying, and to the extent that it causes you to contemplate suicide, you would stop it.

If you wore pink Crocs to school once, and everyone teased you for a couple of days then stopped, then that would be fine. But if you wore them every day, and people sent you hate mail and teased you really badly every day for wearing them... why would you continue wearing them? :S

Do you really think if he stopped wearing them, they'd leave him alone? They obviously weren't bullying him just because of the shirts, that was just one of the things that they could use to bully him.

[HawtNerd]

Exactly ... ^