And here's someone who has never suffered real bullying.

Let's talk about Jenny. Jenny is a 14 year old girl. She lives in a shitty apartment all her life with a parent who can barely afford food. Her mother died when she was just 3. She wakes up on a mattress on the floor, makes a small breakfast, gets dressed in clothes that can't be properly washed because they don't have money and leaves for school. When she gets there, everyone laughs at her for wearing dirty and small clothes. They progress to calling her too skinny and ugly and telling her how nobody cares about her, how little she matters. People push her in the hallways, teachers don't do anything to stop it and when she complains it just gets worse. Her grades fall apart because she spends half her lessons trying not to cry all over the place. After suffering six hours of minor physical and a lot of verbal abuse, she finally goes home on her bus, feeling terrible. Reaches her house. Sits on her bed and thinks. Hopes her alcoholic father doesn't return and find a reason to beat her. Cuts herself because it's an escape. Cries into her pillow and contemplates suicide.

This is the lives of some people. If you've woken up to this and gone to sleep to this for the last 6 years of your life, it's easy to question why you would ever want to live in this world. You could say that they have their entire lives ahead of them but at that point, are they thinking about that? Can they even justify another 4 years (which is a long time!) of this just for it to hopefully get better, to get a shitty job and a shitty apartment and a shitty life? Let's not forget that this is all the person has known for a very long time. For many, they can't. They don't see it as worth it. So they leave. That's not their fault, that's the fault of the constant, never ending abuse that the people surrounding them put them through. In my book, that's manslaughter, collectively and it's "cool" to do this because people want to be like their friends.... Friends who say something mean.