Stop bullying
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Life is something we have just one chance to take part in, to leave our mark before we pass on.

It involves interacting with a diverse variety of people, from different cultures with different outlooks on life.

The fault with our world today is how limited the acceptance is of others in relation to the spreading outbreak of criticism and maltreatment of those who display their way of life differently than our own.

More specifically, the increase in teenage lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender suicides is now considered an epidemic due to the excessive teasing and harassment of them.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported that these teenagers are much more likely to take their own life as a result of mistreatment by their peers.

One might say these innocent teenagers are "bullied to death" verbally, physically and most of all through the online social network.

It is estimated there are between 35,000 and 40,000 suicides in the U.S. every year. Of those numbers, 20 percent of the deaths are of children from ages 12 to 18.

The epidemic needs to be stopped and lives need to be saved by restraining ourselves from degrading others for being different.

No one deserves to feel as if they don't have the right to breathe and take advantage of their one chance at life.