Suicide: The Second Leading Cause Of Death

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Suicide is the second leading cause of death for ages 10-24.Suicide can be caused by being depressed or being stressed over something. Being bullied eventually leads to being depressed. Being depressed leads to having suicidal thoughts. It’s isn’t okay to bully someone or watch someone else get bullied.I think everyone should try to stop the bullies from the bullying people. Over thousands of students go to school each day and get bullied.Getting bullied is very sad and it makes the student getting bullied want to do bad things.Friends or people who sit there and just watch others get bullied could call for help.Also kids who get bullied can ask for help or talk to someone you trust.Bullying is also bad because it can cause kids to disrespect …show more content…

When an adult gets bullied it's not as bad as if a kid were getting bullied because adults will go and talk to someone they trust.Maybe sometimes adults wont and than they just think about trying to hurt people.adults getting bullied is different than when adults gets bullied because it can be less hurting.Also it could be less hurting because the adult may have already been bullied before and may know how it feels.When kids get bullied it's different the first thing they want to do is try to kill themselves and not even try talking to someone. If anyone is ever being bullied and you know who it is tell someone don't just sit there and do nothing about it.Maybe you can even sit there and talk to that person and give them reasons why they should act like if they don't care.Also you can talk to their parents and let them know whats going on.Or you could even become friends with the kid whos getting bullied and try to make the bullies stop bullying

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