For the most part suicides are a shock to family and friends because they may have never seen it coming or may have never known why or what caused a person to commit suicide. On the other hand there are some that family and friends may know something is going on but still not expect it. I am thinking that when Tyler Clementi committed suicide his family was not expecting it at all and was very hurt by the loss, friends may have known that he was very upset.
When Tyler was filmed making out with another man in his dorm room he was very upset at his roommate, he went on a blog and wrote “don’t wanna report him and then up with nothing happening except him getting pissed at me.” He wrote that just before he told his residential advisor and about an hour later he had jumped off the George Washington Bridge. I think that it was very wrong on the roommate’s part to put a hidden camera up in the dorm room. I know that sometimes guys joke around and do crazy things to each other, but I also think that there is a line that should be drawn and that this roommate definitely crossed it. He may have thought it was funny to do that to his roommate, but to post it to the entire world is just ridiculous. Now I may not be all for same sex relationships, but I feel that if a person is going to do that, that they should be left alone about it. They shouldn’t be treated the way Tyler was treated, even though his roommate maybe just thought it would be funny. He had no right to treat someone that way just because he maybe thought it wasn’t right. I feel that if someone is in a relationship or maybe just has feelings for the same sex that they should be the person to tell not someone to do it for them.
Look at what his family has to go through now, because someone made fun of him and went behind his back. He was very upset about it and felt that if he would tell someone what his roommate did that he would just look dumb because he thought nothing would be done about it, so the only way in his mind to take care of it was to commit suicide. I think it is just awful how someone could treat a person like that.
-Quote from ABC News, video. http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/fallout-rutgers-suicide-tyler-clementi-death-roomate-stream-sex-encounter-gay-homosexual-homophobia-cyberbully-11770748
I was bullied my whole life, and people did worse things to me than catching me on film doing something I'm embarrassed about. Did I want to end my life? yes, but it's a selfish thing to do, and its very cowardly. People need to learn that bullying is a part of life, everybody has had it happen to them at least once in there lives. I feel no sympathy for the guy that killed himeself. people need to man up and fight back.
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