Here's yet another story of teens who committed suicide, possibly due to school bullying. Do you think these young people were already prone to commit suicide and the bullying tipped them over the edge? Or was bullying the causal factor?
"Two teenage high school students reportedly committed suicide this weekend in separate incidents, and friends and family of both say they were harassed and bullied at school. "
Personally, I believe that they both may have sufferred from some form of mental illness such as depression, or anxiety. To me, that does not fully explain why they decided to committ suicide because I also believe that the bullying tipped them over the edge. I remember reading and blogging about the suicide of Tyler Clementi and remember feeling so sad for me. It is as though the media that covered that story was also empathatic and that they were trying to get the word out ever more on bullying. It is really sad that this sort of violence still exists today because of the amount of awareness there is about bullying.