Reply #13: Is it the bullying that is causing this sudden rash of suicides or the ability of the people to cope

[cbdo2007]

with the bullying??

Really bullying has been around forever. Usually those of use who are bullied just make friends with the other kids who get picked on and we end up growing up to be normal and probably in most cases, better off than the idiots who use to bully us.

It's just strange that all of a sudden, the way to "cope" with bullying seems to be to kill yourself. I always though of killing the kids bullying me...but never considered killing myself.

Maybe this has to do more with an online youth culture who does not have a "real life" support system of friends/family they can go to? I don't know, but there must be some reason for it to be happening more now that ever before. I even knew a couple of kids who committed suicide when I was a teenager, 20 years ago, and they were both kids who had picked on me.