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Bullycide is a compound noun formed from the word bully and the suffix -cide ("killing", as in suicide, homicide, patricide, etc from the Latincaedo= to slaughter).
This term was coined by Neil Marr and Tim Field, the writers of the book Bullycide, Death at Playtime.[338] As the etymology suggests, bullycide 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.
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.
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 both got 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.
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[339] 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.
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