I wanted to write a blog entry on something that I've thought about silently each day recently. As I'm sure most of you know about the recent suicides due to bullying. A few of those cases were teenagers being bullied for their sexual preference. This absolutely disgusts me. It's crazy to me that these certain people were that upset and hurt that they decided to end their own life. The most recent suicide case that I've heard and read a lot about is the gay student from Rutgers University, who committed suicide after his roommate placed a camera in the room unknowingly and recorded the students sexual encounter with another man. Then, leaked it onto the world wide web. Tyler Clementi, the gay student was obviously humiliated and horrified to ever show his face on campus again. Weeks later, the university, community, family and friends of Tyler are still mourning his death. If this isn't a huge wake up call to people around the world especially the bullies, I don't know what is. Bullying is obviously a serious problem all around the world, since this incident is not the only case of bullying leading to suicide. This situation upsets and shocks me. This problem needs to be fixed one way or another.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/10/04/bullying.special.explainer/index.html
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