Bullycide

Bullycide is a portmanteauformed from the words bully and suicide and/or homicide. This term was coined by Neil Marr and Tim Field, the writers of the book Bullycide, Death at Playtime. As the etymologysuggests, bullycide refers to the suicide or killing of a child due to bullying, or a bully victim seeking fatal revenge against his or her bullies, such as a school shooting. Since bullying can cause an individual to feel hopeless about himself, he may have very low self-esteemand may suffer depressionas a result. This can eventually lead to suicide.

Bullycide can refer to a school shootingthat is provoked by bullying, as well as murders that occur as a result of bullying. Bullies can pick on people physically hard enough to actually kill them.

Examples of Bullycide

• An eighth grader named Curtis Taylor at Oak Bridge Middle School in Burlington, Iowawas a victim of bullying for three years. Bullies called him names, bashed him into a locker, poured chocolate milk down his sweatshirt, and vandalized his belongings. They drove him into committing suicide on March 22, 1993when he shot himself.

• Thirteen-year-old Jared High was brutally assaulted by a known schoolyard bully. After he and the bully both got suspended, he became depressed, and eventually committed suicide.

• Twelve-year-old Debbie Shaw at a British school died from injuries received from fighting a bully.

• Also in Britain, twelve - year - old Natalie Ruddick pretended to be ill and stayed home so she wouldn't have to face school bullies, but was murdered by a burglar who broke into the house that day.

• A boy in Ireland was running away from a bully but was killed by a passing lorryin the process.

See also

• School shooting
• Jared Story.com(about Jared High mentioned above)
• The Curtis Taylor bullying-suicide story
• Bullyonline.org: List of bullycides

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