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Bullycide

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Bullycide is a portmanteau formed from the words bully and suicide and/or homicide. As the etymology suggests, bullycide refers to the suicide or killing of a child due to bullying. Since bullying can cause an individual to feel hopeless about himself, he may have really low self-esteem and may suffer depression as a result. This can eventually lead to suicide.

Also, although it is rare, bullies could pick on someone physically hard enough to actually kill. One example of this is a British boy's hair was set on fire from his classmates. In another Irish case, a boy who was being bullied desperately tried to run away from his bully and in the process was killed by a passing lorry.

This term was coined by Neil Marr and Tim Field, the writers of the book "Bullycide, Death at Playtime"

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Examples of Bullycide

An eighth grader named Curtis Taylor at Oak Bridge Middle School in Burlington, Iowa. He had been the victim of continuous bullying for three years, which included name-calling, him getting bashed into a locker, chocolate milk poured down his sweatshirt and vandalism of his belongings. This drove him into committing suicide on March 22, 1993 by shooting himself with a gun.

Five years later, publicized by the bullying-prevention site Jared Story.com (http://www.jaredstory.com),13-year old named Jared High, who was brutally assaulted by a bully under the name of "Brutus". After him and the bully both got suspended, he took it quite personally and became depressed, and then eventually committed suicide.

Twelve year old Debbie Shaw at a British school decided to confront her issues by fighting against the school bully. She died of her injuries.

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