[1] The etymology is confusing, suggesting that bullycide involves the killing of bullies. However, it 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-esteem and may suffer depression as a result. This can eventually lead to suicide. Etymology is the study of the origins of words. ... In psychology, self-esteem or self-worth is a persons self-image at an emotional level; circumventing reason and logic. ... Clinical depression (also called severe depressive disorder, major depressive disorder) is a state of intense sadness, melancholia or despair that has advanced to the point of being disruptive to an individuals social functioning and/or activities of daily living. ...

Bullycide can refer to a school shooting that 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. Fatal accidents resulting from bullying (eg. being hit by traffic while running across a busy road to escape bullies) can be counted as bullycides as well. A school massacre is an incident of attempted mass murder, involving at least one actual death, that occurs at a school. ...

Technically, 'Bullycide' is not a word. If it becomes a word, it should be written 'Bullicide'.

Examples

• Curtis Taylor committed suicide on March 22, 1993 when he went into his bedroom and shot himself in the head after three years of bullying.
• Thirteen-year-old Jared High was brutally assaulted by a known schoolyard bully. After he and the bully were both suspended, he became depressed, and eventually committed suicide.
• Twelve-year-old Debbie Shaw died from injuries received from fighting a bully at a British school.
• Jean Evans, a teacher in the West Midlands, committed suicide because of bullying from students. Another teacher at the same school committed suicide shortly afterwards.

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Fictional examples

• The Marilyn Manson song, "Lunchbox", is a fictional account about bullying. However, there is a reference to a piece of legislation dating back to 1972 which bans metal lunchboxes, lest they be used as weapons. The lyrics include: "I've got my lunchbox and I'm armed real well."
• The Pearl Jam song "Jeremy," from their 1991 debut album Ten tells the story of a quiet, bullied teen who kills himself in front of his class. The lyrics merely imply the violence with the repetitive and foreboding line, "Jeremy spoke in class today." The edited video implies that "Jeremy" shot his classmates, but original clearly shows him putting the gun in his mouth, and it is understood that the blood on the others was his. It was inspired by newspaper accounts of the inschool suicide of Jeremy Wade Delle.
• Writing under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman, popular novelist Stephen King penned a novella, Rage, about a teen who, having been abused by his father, goes insane and takes hostage a class of 24 children after he murders two teachers. Although written long before events in the media like the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, King has in recent years expressed regret that he ever published the work. "I guess if there's anything I regret, it's having published Rage, which is about a kid who carries a rifle to school and shoots people," King says in an interview[2] at Amazon.com. "I feel like I don't think it causes anybody to do that, but I think in several cases it's been what arson inspectors call an 'accelerant.'" He adds that he has since withdrawn the novella from publication.
• Scott Magri's debut music CD, BULLYCIDE EP, creatively reflects on the bullying Scott endured as a youth and how it has effected him even in adulthood. The song is both lyrically and musically honest and sincere. "The monsters are always out every single day, and there's no haven where you are safe, so you play it real cool. They're just toying with you. It'll be over soon, so take your punches like a fucking man."

• School shooting
• Bullying Online

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External links

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