Suicide of Megan Meier

This paper will be examining bullying amongst adolescents in today society. There are no known treatment options, but there are plenty other aspects that can be observed within this topic. In this paper we will be taking a closer look at the reasons for this type of behavior in young adults, the possible outcomes, and the effects on society as a whole. The loss of a life is too important for awareness on bullying to not be a goal. Making people aware of how life threatening bullying has proven…

Introduction The articles that I read where about suicide in the military and suicide in the general population of the Unites states. While reading I found that Suicide in the military where caused by several driving factors increased stress, age, mental disorder and many more, according to the Megan Meier foundation Suicide is the second most leading cause of death of people in the United States within the Age group of 15 to 24 years of age. According to Eaton, Messer and Hoge 50 percent of…

experience these diseases nor adulthood. For these victims the abuse is so dreadful that they consider the final solution in life; suicide. Teen suicides have become a common story yet they are never any easier. For a short moment the nation weeps for the newly deceased and in some cases inspire movements for change. Ty Field was an 11 year old who committed suicide and as the town mourned his parents began the fight for change (“Bully”), but why is it that a child 's death is needed to invoke…

the story of Megan Meir. Megan was thirteen when a sixteen year old boy named josh sent her a friend request. Josh told Megan that he was home schooled and did not have a cell phone, and so Megan never got to hear his voice or see him in person. For a girl who had ADD and dealt with depression and weight problems, this was finally a chance for her to feel normal. She had talked about committing suicide when she was in the third grade, and ever since then had been seeing a therapist. Megan talked…

Cyberbullying is on a rise. Now that technology is advancing so are the threats that come with it. “Cyberbullying is defined as a willful and repeated harm inflicted through the use of computers, cellphones and other electronic devices” (Patchin 2014). In the present days, teenagers are using the internet more than ever before and they have access to it from anywhere. For many children the internet is not only for study purposes or playing games, it is part of their social life as well, where…

As of now there are no federal laws that specifically relate to cyberbullying. There was an Act that was introduced in 2009 called the Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act, but, unfortunately,it failed to gain support in the U.S congress. (Washington 25). The girl named after the act. Megan Meir, was a girl who committed suicide because of cyberbullying, and this law was meant to imprison or fine cyberbullies on a federal level. To prevent cyberbullying, imprisonment might be what…

so hurtful and cruel that a person wouldn’t want to face the bully again. This evens happens to adults in the work place. One example of this was Amanda Todd. A little over a month after she posted My Story: Struggling, bullying, suicide and self-harm, she committed suicide after skipping school and getting into drugs because of what people at school were saying about a picture of her. Her story inspired her family to create the Amanda Todd Legacy, which is a foundation in her name that people…

Relationship between cyberbullying and suicide. Introduction Suicide is the third leading cause of death in the United States. Even though suicide rates decreased significantly in the recent years by 28.5 %, suicide is the second leading cause of death in teenagers from 10 to 24-year old. (CDC, 2017). In light of many recent highly publicized cases, there seem to be a strong link between suicide and bullying which involves cyberbullying and traditional bullying. However, many parents and…

The negative impact of the use of social networking and technology on society is a very broad topic that incorporates many different points of interest, including bullying, employment, education, relationships, and communication. Social media and technology both play an immense and rapidly increasing role in today’s society, which is especially evident among the younger generations. The twenty-first century is known as the “app generation,” due to the fact that technology is steadily starting to…

Words and actions can be something so beautiful, but they can also be the demons that some people have to deal with. Everyone has been criticised and put down for being the way they are, either intentionally or unintentionally, but not everyone takes it the same way. People say that there is no reason to get all worked up about what others say and that it should simply be ignored, which for some can be easy, but for others it may be nearly impossible. Some people are more sensitive to words,…