Bullied gay teen Jadin Bell dies at OHSU
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A hospital official says an Eastern Oregon teenager who tried to commit suicide at a school playground has died.
The spokesman with the Oregon Health and Science University says 15-year-old Jadin Bell died at the Portland hospital early Sunday afternoon.
The teen attempted to hang himself Jan. 19 at an elementary school playground in La Grande, about 250 miles east of Portland.
A family friend, Bud Hill, told The Oregonian newspaper earlier this week that the boy's family has always been very supportive of the boy's sexual orientation, but some classmates called him names, and he had complained about bullying to a school counselor.
Bell was a high school sophomore at La Grande High School.
How very, very sad that this boy lost his life, I dont know if he had any mental heath issues, I do know that I as a gay man of almost 60 and in a wonderful relationship for 37 years can remember how hard it at 15 to come to terms with being gay, I had a few who called me names but not that many.
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Is that there is NO choice, I am gay had I tried to change that and find a girl, get married, that wife would had to live a hard life, I would have been able to give her a real marriage, Maybe he is thinking of BI men/women, so many in the forces lead this life style and yes that is a choice, being GAY in not a choice, and we are lucky today to be able to lead that life freely
Jadin Bell suicide cannot be blamed on anyone else besides himself. He made the choice to commit suicide, rather than dealing with his problems. His decision to commit suicide not only hurt himself, it also hurt his parents, family, and friends. I do not believe bullies pushed him into commiting suicide. Sounds like he might had mental health issue and the choices that he made in his life didnt help.
I am sad today..not only at the loss of this beautiful child, but also because of reading these horrific postings of continued bullying cleverly wrapped in the guise of " compassionate Christanity". My prayer is for one day soon these people get a glimpse of themselves the way the rest of us see them... Hypocritical, judgmental and pathetic purveyors of irrational bigotry towards others under the basis of self-imposed "superiority". They have yet to see that they are the "problem", not the "solution".
Very sad.Granted,that is not my type of lifestyle,too bad his parents' weren't able to handle this bully.Personally,I would love to kick the hell out of that damn bully.I grew up around bullies,and my late father said "use whatever at
hand to subdue the bully,run home and get me"!! I tell my two sons,who are biracial,NO ONE has the right to
harass you,report it and let me know and I will take care of the bully and his/her parents by whatever means
necessary.(one way discussion,legal,than my way,and that can be ugly!!).
Every time i see the photo of this beautiful child, my heart breaks all over again. Â And not just for the torment and pain he endured while facing his death, but the inconceivable pain his parents must be experiencing at losing their child and wondering what they could have done to prevent it.
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Is there nothing within any of the school district's power that could compel the parents and their bullying child into a mediation session with the parents and the child being bullied?  Held for the purpose of Jadin's parents for example, getting to force the child and their parents to have to see with there own eyes and acknowledge the human being whose life is being negatively impacted and harmed because of the actions of their child (and yes hoping they start to understand and feel uncomfortable that somehow, somewhere something went awry in the raising of their child). Â
Also to further allow the parents of the bullied child to set terms of behavior that will not be tolerated and what the corresponding consequence will be for their child  violating those term.  I would suggest, depending on the severity, an escalating punishment - 1st violation, a suspension.  2nd violation, depending on how egregious, another suspension or if their was violence, an outright expulsion. Any contact or aggression during the expulsion or suspicion should be reported to the police so that a paper trail can be created and if they won't stop, they can try get a restraining order or look into pressing charges.  Doing this will begin to limit the bully's freedoms and actions and hopefully will began to change his/her perspective and behaviors accordingly.
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I just cannot accept that nothing can be done to try to nip this in the bud when it first raises it's head. Â Also, this approach should help in reducing the number of children who give in to the impulse of going back to the school in order to exact some revenge ala Columbine style because the system failed to protect them. Â This way, Â by giving them a tool they can use in order to be heard, in order to assert their right to not be harassed or bullied, and one which allows them to actually see that punishment will be mete out if the bullying continues, even if that necessitates the bully having to leave school and/or entering the juvenile justice system.
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 @oldarmysoldier It is my hope that angry and self-righteous people like you some day choose to keep your opinions to yourself because every time you discuss your belief system, based on your religion or political rightness, you contribute to a climate of disdain for people who do not identify as heterosexual. So each time you speak, or post, or suggest, you have picked up a stone and heaved it. I thought Christ instructed us there was a better way. You suggest this young man may have done this out of self-loathing for who he is; we aren't born with self-loathing -- the people we encounter and define us and minimize us help us create our self-images. And you, sir, fill the world with the negativity that contributes to young people believing that leaving this world is a better option than living here with people like you. So, in your self righteousness, you don't just heave the stone at young people who are struggling; you figuratively give them the rope. Some day, when you meet your maker, you will see a tape of your life playing before you and the pain you inflict on people with your hostility and aggression cloaked in what you believe is under the guise of God, and your heart will fill with regret. But God will forgive you; because you know not what you do.
@Woodsie Amazing how if you go back and look at my post (which KOMO now deleted because I made reference to the objective science that is attached to the study of homosexuality---it is stuff they don't like), you would have seen that nowhere in my entire post did I even say the word "Christ" or "Chrisitianity", did I? Not even once. And you, like so many others, rushed to judgment--just as you did in assuming for what reasons this young tragically man took his own life--when in truth, you do not know.
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In addition, you seem to have tried to fashion a 'god' of your own making, rather than realizing and accepting the God described in the Bible (since YOU, NOT ME, dragged Christianity into this). Christ said many things, all of which we must take with equal measure if we are to understand Him. We cannot 'pick and choose' which parts of the Book we wish to follow and which we don't, and yet claim to call ourselves a "Christian", if in fact that is what we are doing. Because Christ also said to "love the sinner but hate the sin". Sin is somethign we are ALL saddled with, not just some of us. For some, their sin may be an addiction to sex, or power, or greed, or money, or what have you. And some are born with mental or physical diabilities. And some are born with conditions which worsen over time. And some grow to have desires that are contrary to His will--which He states very clearly, in plain English, for anyone to read. Such is the case with this young man. And unfortunately, for some reason he chose to take his own life; it may have been because of horrendous bullying, it may have been because of soemthing else. The fact is that we do not know, period.Â
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Either way, God will not judge me someday (as He will also judge you) as to 'how well I got along with everyone', and how pragmatic I was, and how 'nice' I was to everyone. He will judge me based upon the deeds done in the flesh...as will you, as He will this young man. And if I stand for what God has told me is right and wrong, that is not me being self-rightous. If you have a problem with God's law, I suggest you consult Him on it. Don't feel bad or out of place--people who hate God's law on right and wrong have been around for a long time....and they far outnumber those who do stand for it.
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@PuzzleFighter Normal is a term that is entirely subjective. In describing the vast and diverse differences in people within a society, normal is not a blanket term as there are countless differences between people.
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That said, based on your ignorant views on human beings and the human condition, I am quite pleased to know that you'll never enter the medical field as anything other than a patient.
 @oldarmysoldier Im very sorry that you are soo angry and lack compassion. I imagine it is difficult to live in a world where people don't agree with what you are saying. I know it can be hard to admit that your own views are horribly bigoted and part of the problem. I hope that someday you will find compassion in your heart and sort out your anger issues with the LGTB community..
@J Lynnwood @oldarmysoldier You clearly did not read the entire post. You read and remembered only the parts that you disagreed with, and forgot the very last paragraph, which stated very clearly my compassion for the young man's death, the sense of loss that his family is now enduring, and the need to address bullying more fervently. You clearly did not read that part. You onlyresponded to the parts that you disagreed with, which most likely where I presented the scientific parts of the post...which of course is the part that most pro-gay-lifestyle folks object to...and yet they themselves are often the biggest promulgators of the 'I was born this way' axiom, amazingly. And sure enough, my post (which alluded that the far-left-leaning media would try to bury anything that does not promote their agenda, including objective science) was deleted. KOMO proved my point in deleting my original post. And yet, there was no profanity in it, there was no crude name-calling, there was no badmouthing, there was no degrading language or inferences in there----none of that. And yet, KOMO chose to delete it. Classic. My sister, coincidentally, is living a homosexual lifestyle. I love my sister, always will, till the day I die. But 'loving her' does NOT mean that I somehow MUST LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT HER OR EVERYTHING SHE DOES. Absolutely not. To require that I do so is a false love. My views are not bigoted at all: I treat everyone equally for that which they are born to: their race, the color of their skin, their national origin, their gender--all of that; and their religion, because that is what the Founding Fathers stood for--religious freedom. I am not bound by any law or unspoken moral code to also 'honor' someone's behavior. Absolutely not---and homosexuality is manifested in only one manner, and that is human conduct. You cannot line up 100 people naked and look at them and say 'that person is gay and that person is straight'. No---homosexuality manifests itself in only one way, and that is human conduct.  , period. And human conduct IS the one thing over which we have CHOICE.
@J Lynnwood @oldarmysoldier how is your mentality any different than Christians believe the world is flat? Emotion shouldn't be in the equation when science are being disgussed. Saying homosexuality is a mental disorder or abnormality is NOT the same as hating on the people, just a simple FACT.
 @PuzzleFighterIt's not a mental disorder because it is both extremely prevalent and it has a natural function.
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@PuzzleFighter "Emotion shouldn't be in the equation when science are being disgussed."
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"Saying homosexuality is a mental disorder or abnormality is NOT the same as hating on the people, just a simple FACT."
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Nope. Care to try again? Better yet, how about a bunch of us here chip and get you a dictionary and a thesarus and you do a lot of reading so you can come back and try it again, only then, you'd be able to not only use the big words, but understand what they really mean and be able to use them correctly.
I was bullied in school way before I got to middle school by a bully who was a whole lot bigger than I was.
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Apparently that bully was removed from our town and moved somewhere else due to their attitude. I guess it's not nice to threaten almost all the kids in your town, including those belonging to the local police department.
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Later ran into that bully. She. Yes, I said SHE. She who had bullied boys, girls, teachers, adults, priests, animals, etc. Wasn't as big as she was when I was younger.
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She asked me if I could forgive her. Told her I already did. Told her I could actually have taken her up on her offer to kick her butt back in the day. Might have even won, but she really wasn't worth my time.
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She was shocked. Said she had issues and still does. Also is having issues with her child being a bully.
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Told her that I hoped life would get better, but I had to go.
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I never wanted to kill myself. I didn't have the best parents. Heck, mom thought it was all MY fault, anyways.
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But I had my Gramma. She listened. I think she even kept making phone calls to the local police to get it handled.
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School said they'd would. Never did. Got worse, actually.
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Parents AND Grandparents, if you have a child being bullied, don't believe the "we're working on it" stuff from the school. They're really not.
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Get it handled, but also let your child know you're on their side. Because a child (not just a teen) but a child who's being bullied and believes that no one is on their side, will be like this young man.
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Talk to them, take action and push for the beaurocrats to fix this. It's got to stop.
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No one has the right to harass bully or make any one feel infirior. That is unamerian period. Yes i amy not like you or agree with you. I still will respect you and your opinon and I demand you respect mine. In no way shape or form should any one who calls himself a American violate persons right to Life, Liberty,and the pursuit happiness! my rant for the day.
Having been one of those bullied in school I can feel for Jadin and am saddened by his loss. I was not sexually different, poor or anything of that kind, just different. It seems kids like to find that one individual that stands out and try to drag them down to their level. Schools seemed to have always looked the other way on things like this and its a shame. It is hard enough for someone who is a little different to get buy without having a pack of other kids belittling them, beating them or doing other things to make them feel worse than they already are. That is one reason I am against Scouts amending their rules because the same thing can and will happen there as well. Schools and other things need to change to allow others to be different without ridicule or belittling.
When my son was little, he had this kid that was constantly picking on him, almost to a point of relentless. I spoke with the teacher, and then with the principal, and they said they would "handle" it. After it was "handled" to the school's standards, the bullying got worse. A LOT worse, and no one would do a damn thing. One afternoon, my son came home upset with a bloody nose because this punk had started in again, and was mad because he got a "talkin to." That afternoon, I gave my son permission to thrash the little idiot, and ignore the "school's rules." I also explained to him that if he got suspended, he would only be in trouble at school, and not at home. Two days later, he was suspended for a week, and the bully with two broken fingers and a broken nose never messed with him again. Folks, we need to allow our children to defend themselves. When all of these impotent "rules" invoked by our nanny school system makes kids feel helpless to a point of SUICIDE, it's time to teach them to fight back. As long as bullies get away with their crap, they're going to move from one weak kid, to another, to another. It's time to toughen our kids up, and not let them become victims in the first place. The same goes for adults.
I was bullied in school until I fought back. Because I defended myself I was always the one in trouble. My mom and I reported the bullies all the time but nothing was done. This was back in the 80's. I never once had a desire to kill myself. I was bullied for being poor, not for sexuality. The reasoning is irrelevant, however. Sure, bullying should stop. But it never will. Now it's bad enough that even if my kids don't like someone, they are forced to play with that person, who often turns out to be a bully nobody wants to be around. When my daughter got in trouble and nearly suspended because she told a girl that was bullying her that she didn't wish to play with her, her school began labeling my daughter as a bully. All my daughter had to do was tell someone "no" and now she's a "Bully". This crap is going too far. We can't fight our kid's battles folks. Real life is far tougher than school and by fighting our kids' battles we are failing to prepare them to live in the real world. Adult bully's are all over the place. Adults have no one to tattle to about it. I can just imagine 20 years from now a 911 dispatcher getting the "He was mean to me" phone call. Not "He hit me" not "I'm in danger of my life", but "He was mean". Know what's gonna happen? Likely not a thing.
Kids are bullied for many reasons. I can't stand the little tthug wanna be's. I'm not for the gay life style but I wouldn't bully someone over it. But he is the one who commited suicide and of all places a kids playground. How thoughtful of him. I really wish this world wasn't so cold that there has to be torchered souls.
 @Gigi How thoughtful of you to leave such a judgmental comment.
@Gigi Nice. So you're sarcastically saying that he was thoughtful about where he killed himself but not about the simple and plain fact THAT he killed himself. How very thoughtful of you...
@what? of course it's all planned out. it takes time and effort to walk to the playground, set up the rope, climb up, and hang himself. Just becasue he killed himself, he's off the hook for any disturbance he caused at the playground? Human don't just take a dump on the side of the street like dog does, so the samething goes for where a person decided to commit suicide.
@what? of course it's all planned out. it takes time and effort to walk to the playground, set up the rope, climb up, and hang himself. Just becasue he killed himself, he's off the hook for any disturbance he caused at the playground? Human don't just take a dump on the side of the street like dog does, so the samething goes for where a person decided to commit suicide.
@PuzzleFighter Dude, the kid is dead. It's safe to say that he's "off the hook" for everything. Why do you have the isatiable need to drag the poor kid's body through the mud?
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"Human don't just take a dump on the side of the street like dog does, so the samething goes for where a person decided to commit suicide."
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Bull. Absolute bull. I had a friend who gave up. He was in a bitter custody battle with his ex wife. He gave upand jumped off an overpass. The best thing the shrinks could come up with was that they thought he did it that way so he couldn't change his mind once he started. I had another friend who gave up and hung herself in her shower. She felt that since her boyfriend dumped her and she couldn't get anyone to listen to her audition tape as a vocalist, that she had nothing else to live for. I had an uncle who got layed off from an employer he'd been working for for almost 16 years. He lost his home, raked up a mountain of debt, and ended up moving back in with family. He decided one night when the family had gone for a weekend getaway that he'd start the car and run a vaccum cleaner hose from the exhaust pipe and in through the back window of the car. It ran until it was out of gas and the family found him when they came back home. In those situations, no thought was given to what the aftermath would be. No thought had been given to the pain and suffering that their friends and families would feel. They chose their locations and situations based on selfish and personal criteria. All places the victims felt safe enough to go through with their plans. And again, there was no thought or consideration paid to anyone other than themselves. So no, your statements of this kid intentionally inflicting trauma and abusing others in his choice of locale is wrong. One more time, to you, it's all about his sexual orientation and nothing more.
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My kid was bullied in grade school. At the time (and I don't think it's changed), the students were taught to submit. For lack of a better description, 'don't fight back'. He had taken martail art classes and could easily have kicked some azz. Yet he obeyed to the schools 'logic'.Â
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This story is sad in many ways. It's even more sad when the environment in our schools is teaching to run away and accept the humiliation.
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@bobalouie One of the most important things martial arts teaches is restrain not escalation to violence because someone's teasing or taunting you. For what it's worth, he wasn't obeying the school's logic, he was demonstrating what he had learnt in martial arts classes and really should be commended for his restraint.
How come more people don't teach their kids that they will encounter people who they may not understand or like yet teach them to live and let live. Bullying is for losers.
Poor kid, may he rest in peace. Â I will never understand why kids (or adults) think that it is okay to demean, judge or bully others for being "different" than the norm. Â We're all human beings and we all deserve to be treated with respect, compassion and empathy. Â This young man's homosexuality hurt no one, but the intolerant people who attacked him caused him to feel that life just wasn't worth living, and that is not okay with me at all. Â It makes me so sad and so very angry. Â Â
Love one another as I have loved you - there is no room in that statement for judgement of and hatred for anyone. I believe in an almighty creator, it is my right to do so and anyone's right not to. If we "believers" practiced the words of Christ that we are so eager to cram down other people's throats, we wouldn't inspire so much hate. A very very very sad day indeed.
It's tragic, yes. But a suicide cannot be blamed on anyone else besides the deceased. He made the choice to commit suicide, rather than dealing with his problems.
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Kids need to learn that there will be bullies all through their lives. They need to learn to deal with them.
@Tacoma ER Doc Hardly. I'd say that while the bullies didn't tie the knot in the rope, they pushed the poor kid to it and are definately a contributing factor. Just as much as the school is for not doing anything about it when the kid brought it to their attention.
XENOPHOBIA IS ALIVE AND WELL IN THIS COUNTRY- IT IS EQUAL OPPORTUNITY - BOTH DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS use it to denigrate opponents.
 @contraryjim Xenophobia is a deep rooted hatred of foreigners which has no relation to the story subject.
Any teen's suicide is sad regardless of their gender or sexual orientation.
this is so very sad. As the mom of a child who was bullied, I can tell you that the schools LIE. there is no real protection for kids there. The school will say oh we will take care of that but it does not get done. They have their no bully zone signs up but its all for show. my child would come home with slap marks, punches to the eye, kicks to the shin..I took pictures of it too and still the school did nothing! even a teacher witnessed it and told the kids to stop but he didnt tell anyone else. a TEACHER!  My child is now an adult but the bullying destroyed his self confidence. we are suing. Its getting pretty obvious that public schools are not the place for children..guns, weirdo teachers, mass shootings..abductions and plety of bullies as well. i finally removed my child from school because Olympic middle school in auburn would do nothing. That is the worst school! I feel so bad for this kid. He did nothing wrong. It doesnt matter if you are gay, fat, white or black, it just doesnt matter..the bullies will find SOMETHING to bully other kids about. Take your children out of the public schools. they are not safe! Rest In Peace Jadin
 @goldie Children reflect the xenophobia of their parents.
 @goldie Nothing happens for bullying, but if you make your hand into an "L" shape you'll be suspended for making a gun gesture at school, with no thought to context.Â
"Oregon teenager who tried to commit suicide at a SCHOOL PLAYGROUND". some how, being gay excused him for freaking out other kids in the school.
 @PuzzleFighter You are disgusting.
@Rentonese Right, you are so much better because you just blindly follow sensationalism reporting. Either renounce your US citizenship or move to Middle East, because the country we live in is the biggest bully of this whole planet. For someone who can't think, you probably won't make any sense out of what I just said anyways.
@PuzzleFighter Explain why this story shouldn't be newsworthy?
 @PuzzleFighter "...freaking out other kids..." where did the article mention freaking out other kids? Isn't tolerance supposed to be a mark of adulthood, to be encouraged in schools?  Public (government) schools try to be all things to all folk and fail at most. It appears they failed the "Pfighter"
@contraryjim Please don't FREAK OUT when the phrase FREAK OUT and GAY are in the same sentence. learn how to read before acting like the hero of this society.
@PuzzleFighter Aaaah, the roaming point. The 'that's what I said but not what I meant' defence.
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That's exactly what you said and in context. Now you're implying that it was somehow misconstrued?!? Yeah ok.
@PuzzleFighter Wow, very elloquent and classy. There is nothing here that said anything about the kid being disruptive. It did say that the kid tried to get help from the school, bringing the bullying it to their attention and they did nothing. The school allowed the bullying to continue. It's a shame that being gay is enough for people like you to veiw them as being subhuman and deserving of abuse by society.
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@PuzzleFighter The point being, it really doesn't matter where or how the poor kid decided to commit suicide. It's a sad deal all the way around. Now let me take your argument apart.
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"This boy is not some animal that acts purely on survival and instinct, every human, even the crazy ones have train of thought and motivation before they do anything."
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It's never ever that simple. Fight or flight reactions are somewhat instinctive. Impulsive actions don't necessarily follow any predetermined plan either. Hence the term impulsive. Whatever the case here, the poor kid was not thinking rationally. Had he been, suicide wouldn't have been an option he'd be considering.
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"Picking a playground to commit suicide is an action driven by motivation to terrorize and traumatize anyone who would potentially see it."
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And you know this how? Not at all. It could have been a place he felt he could do it and get away with it. People commit suicide for a lot of reasons. Terrorizing and traumatizing others is not one of them. Suicide is a very selfish act. Terrorizing and traumatizing others is not.
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"My point is, there are plenty of suicides that can be linked to bullying, but why is it only the gay ones are reported?"
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They are not the only ones reported by any means. You're just focusing on the fact that it involves someone who was gay.
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"also, based on your logic, how is the action of this kid any different than the Columbine kids who decided to shoot up the school because they are bullied? sure, Jaidan didn't kill anyone, but the mentality to terrorize is exactly the same."
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Not even remotely related. I doubt the columbine assailants felt they wouldn't be walking out alive after their rampage. They didn't intend to inflict harm on others, they DID inflict harm on others. Again, suicide is a very selfish act. It can be and is in many cases caused and influenced by the actions of others, but the end result is that they are taking the easy way out. An escape from the problems. They aren't thinking about the harm others are going to feel, the loss others will feel. What this kid did was wrong. It was wrong because he decided suicide was his only option. For you, the issue was his sexual orientation and considering the hollow statements you've made I suspect that you have some serious issues you need to address.
@what? "It isn't being disruptive or emotionally abusive at all. Simply put, it was the place he picked to end his life. Nothing more, nothing less." how convinient that the point I am trying to make is "meaningless" and "harmless". This boy is not some animal that acts purely on survival and instinct, every human, even the crazy ones have train of thought and motivation before they do anything. Picking a playground to commit suicide is an action driven by motivation to terrorize and traumatize anyone who would potentially see it. My point is, there are plenty of suicides that can be linked to bullying, but why is it only the gay ones are reported? also, based on your logic, how is the action of this kid any different than the Columbine kids who decided to shoot up the school because they are bullied? sure, Jaidan didn't kill anyone, but the mentality to terrorize is exactly the same.
 @what?  @PuzzleFighter My daughter saw a dead CAT and had nighhtmares about it for a month! Not disruptive or not causing emotional harm? How many times have you seen a dead body in person? Hanging from a tree? It's nothing less than horror, FOR AN ADULT, I assure you. You're not taking into account the reaction of kids to such things. Death is not an emotionless thing. Suicide is most often extremely violent and visually disturbing.Â
@PuzzleFighter All children are attention grabbing. It's what they do. Being gay, hanging himself at school, being 'different' than the other kids, is asinine. He was wrong in your eyes just for being gay. Guess what, there are people out there that are different than you. In some ways, everyone is different than everyone else. That's what makes us all individuals.
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"... please tell me how hanging himself in a SCHOOL PLAYGROUND is not being disruptive or emotionally abusive for other kids..."
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It isn't being disruptive or emotionally abusive at all. Simply put, it was the place he picked to end his life. Nothing more, nothing less.
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"Just because the school did nothing about the bullying, and you think it's OK for him to retaliate in a way that could also hurt the innocent kids who did NOTHING to him?"
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The school did nothing, enabling the bullies to continue their torment. If he took the risk to complain to the school, and the school did nothing to stop it, I seriously doubt the bullies decided to lay off. If anything I suspect they stepped it up. After the poor kid asks for help from the school, and they do nothing to stop it, that'd just make it that much worse. As far as his suicide, that was anything but a retaliation. How does that result as a retaliation against anyone? How did any other children get 'hurt' by him committing suicide at school? The article never mentions that there was any intent of inflicting harm on anyone else when the poor kid committed suicide.
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Hardly. You felt this kid should have shuffled himself off to a quiet place where he could be gay and not disturb anyone.
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"seems like you are the true biggot"
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I didn't get into any name calling in my debate and I suggest you invest in a better dictionary as you're not exactly using that word correctly.
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"I don't excuse gay people for being disruptive, seems like you are the true biggot for thinking it's OK for gays to acts differently."
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Everyone is different. You're the one who is choosing to be offended.
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@what? Please point out where in my short comment I said anything about him being a subhuman and deserves abuse? and please tell me how hanging himself in a SCHOOL PLAYGROUND is not being disruptive or emotionally abusive for other kids who happened to see it? Just because the school did nothing about the bullying, and you think it's OK for him to retaliate in a way that could also hurt the innocent kids who did NOTHING to him?
@PuzzleFighter Please let me assist you with that as you've made a very obvious error in expressing yourself:
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"it doesn't matter who it is, anyone who decided to kill themself (for being gay) deserves ZERO respect or sympathy."
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This poor kid killed himself to get away from the torment. You've commented that he ought to have kept to himself so not to 'freak the other kids out for being gay'. That he should have found someplace else to kill himself because he "retaliate(d) in a way that could also hurt the innocent kids who did NOTHING to him?" That he was "being (intentionally) disruptive or emotionally abusive for other kids" because he hung himself on the playground.
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I sincerely hope that you wake up one day and realize that your actions and comments have reprocussions that reach far beyond just spewing nonsense on a news website. It's actions and comments just like you've tossed around so very trivially here that led to that poor kid making the decision to kill himself.
@what? extrapolate what? other than being hypersensitive whenever the word GAY and FREAKING OUT are in the same sentence? it doesn't matter who it is, anyone who decided to kill themself in a place where KIDS can see deserves ZERO respect or sympathy.
@PuzzleFighter "being gay excused him for freaking out other kids in the school"
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I was able to extrapolate from that.