Persuasive Speech On Suicide To Suicide

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Bullying has become a major deal worldwide, with numerous cases of bullying leading to suicide. It is a tragic event when someone takes their own life from the torment of a bully, but a bully should not be charged with manslaughter, because it is not the bullies’ fault that the individual decided to commit suicide. However the bully should be charged with harassment and have to spend a jail sentence, also including a bullying fine. The concern is if bullies should be charged with manslaughter, but there are multiple cases of bullies happening every day. Bullying in current society can be anything, kids now a days cannot do anything without it being considered bullying, because it hurts another person feeling or they have an over protective parent. Manslaughter is defined as “the crime of killing a human being without malice aforethought or otherwise in circumstances not amounting to murder” (Webster Dictionary 87). Although the definition fits the word, the bully is not focusing the person to commit suicide. They may drive them towards that path of suicide, but it …show more content…

Rumors are usually spread, cruel jokes, and encouraging others to exclude the victim. The 2009 Britain 's Got Talent winner Diversity talks about being bullies as a child and now acts as an anti-bullying ambassador, also producing in a show with Ashely Banjo. Diversity says “I was the only kid that was really tall, the only kid that was mixed race, and that had an Afro. I was the only boy that danced. There 's a difference between racism and ignorance. There were so many different ways they picked on me. My sister, brother and I got called every name associated with brown skin” (2). Although no one committed suicide, there were multiple students bullying Diversity and his family; therefore if someone had to much and decided to take their own life. Then there would have been multiple charges of

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