Two Cases of Suicide Due to Bullying

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Suicide is an issue in society that comes up almost weekly. Whether the person kills themselves or if they receive aid, from a doctor or a friend, in killing themselves it is still suicide. How can we justify our hatred and judgment towards suicide when we do not fully understand the persons reasoning behind committing suicide? Is it because we are apathetic towards their pain or is it because we feel guilty because we could have prevented it? How many people do you personally know that have committed suicide? Did you automatically blame them for the pain you feel because of their death or did you stop to consider that they were going through so much pain that they could think of no other way to end it. I will support the claim that suicide is not always selfish and it needs to be treated with more understanding than most people are willing to give.

In the last four years two suicides on the news have stuck out to me and showed me that suicide is not as black and white as we make it out to be. Phoebe Prince and Megan Meier’s are two young girls who committed suicide because they were subjected to cyber bullying and bullying in public. In the Article “Phoebe Prince, 15, Commits Suicide After Onslaught of Cyber-Bullying From Fellow Students” by Pete Kortz he discussed how Phoebe Prince was an immigrant from Ireland who just started her freshman year in a Michigan high school where she was subjected to constant bullying, stalking, and harassment by girls ranging from 16 to 18 year olds because she dated a football senior. She did nothing wrong yet the constant bullying finally got to her after one of her bullies drove by her and threw an empty energy drink can at her on her way home from school. That day Phoebe hung herself becaus...

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...llnesses that really affected them making them believe that suicide was their best option. While there are some people who commit suicide with the intention to hurt someone else that is normally not the case. However, it is true that if we are truly close to the person who committed suicide that it will leave an everlasting mark on us. We cannot judge someone who has committed suicide at face value and we need to dig deeper before we even begin to think of passing judgment on them. If we are not accepting of others mistakes and flaws how can we expect others to be accepting of ours?

Works Cited

Hawkins, Kristal. "Megan Meier: Mistaken Myspace Suicide." Crime Library. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 May 2014.

Kotz, Pete. "Phoebe Prince, 15, Commits Suicide After Onslaught of Cyber-Bullying From Fellow Students." - True Crime Report. N.p., 28 Jan. 2010. Web. 14 May 2014.

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