Bullies, Transgender teachers, and a daughterless family

http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2015/06/15/transgender-teacher-suicide-dnt.wdjt


This article is full of ethical problems. Depending on where your thought process lies the fact that a transgender person was a teacher might ruffle your ethical feathers. Perhaps it is the fact that other teachers were bullying a peer when they are the ones that are expected to impose no bullying rules. Another problem is bullying a transgender person. The last ethical problem that I see is that the teacher commited suicide. The last problem is the one this blog is about.

Suicide is the plague that is wrecking families and friends across the world. Black, white, Asian, Hispanic, gay, straight, veteran, civilian...this problem affects every race, gender, religion, etc. I do not know when this infection started or how it has gotten so bad without going checked. Know that by committing suicide it doesn't hurt the bullies that are picking on you. It doesn't stop the world from going around and around. Who it does hurt are the people who aren't picking on you. The people it hurts are the ones that are deeply invested in your life. The ones who love you no matter what the outcome. Suicide is a permanent solution to very temporary problems. School is temporary, work is temporary, even being single...is temporary. Life gets difficult to push through at times. At those times the clock of life almost comes to a stop and the situation continues to go on and on forever...or so it seems. This however is just not true. Nothing slows time down. It will continue to press on and so will the ever changing situations in life. There is always someone that has gone through the same or a very similar situation and was able to come out on the other side. Those people are usually happy to share experiences and solutions to the temporary problems without doing the permanent, selfish solution that is suicide. Please do not accept this as an answer to your problems. Be the bravery the world needs and come out on the other side to help others and yourself. Your family needs you and your friends need you.