Another philosophical question to ask oneself is: was Jamey right in taking his life? According to the quotes I have read from Jamey, he was extremely unsatisfied with his life. His environment was dire and didn't favor him at all. He could have changed that by asking his parents for a change in environment and being home schooled for the rest of his high school years. He also could have endured and continued on. Finally, another option was to end his life. Of course, we all know which option he ultimately chose (plausibly after trying all other options). Was he wrong in choosing it? No one likes to be imprisoned. If life becomes a prison, and suicide becomes an exit, is it wrong for a person to take the greatest "exit" one can ever take?

Camus, is that you?

Jamey asked for help so many times and the warning signs of his suicide were posted all over his social networking accounts. How is it possible that NO ONE noticed? Let us assume at least some person read one of his cries for help, why didn't they do something about it? Along with sexual education, don't kids get thought suicide prevention tips? This should serve as a reminder to people that they should check up on their children's social networking posts from time to time.

Maybe she can show him what balls look like.

Perhaps this is a case of Darwin working his magic.  You all believe in Evolution n'est-ce pas?

Maybe she's got some tips on unemployment, the Mideast situation or the two wars we're engaged in. She IS famous. She must know everything.

Hell, at this point I'd be willing to listen to ideas from pretty much anyone besides the people we have in change now!

Maybe. She sure knows how to rethread Madonna songs.

Perhaps there is something inherent in homosexuality that is unfulfilling, nihilistic and dysfunctional that makes one think that life isn't worth living.

I've noticed that gay people have no problem relentlessly mocking other people. Are they bullies too?

The left is notorious for bullying/mocking/trying to destroy people. Palin family / Christians anyone.

Either you're seriously delusional or you're deliberately combative towards gays as a result of your own closeted homosexual desires. I suspect that we may soon discover that Roger_the_Shrubber regularly hires fit young boys to "lift his luggage" and perform paid acts of sexual deviance, all the while claiming to be injecting God's will upon, and in, the buxom young lad. Yup...I'm pretty sure that's it. So, from here on out, each bigoted post of yours will serve as further proof of own homosexual desires. The internet has spoken. Buh-Bye.

If you believe I'm gay, why are you bullying me? Where's your compassion?

Asshole.

You don't see the difference between being catty and actual bullying? Queens can feel so far away sometimes.

Thats exactly what our president needs to spend his time on. If he takes that meeting I'll be even more disappointed with him than I already am.

I'm a woman.  I was bullied up until the 6th grade.  I hardly had any friends cause of my race.  It sucked but I dealt with it and I'm fine now.  My mother taught me to defend myself by talking back or physically defending myself if I had to.  His parents should have been paying better attention to him and home schooled him if necessary.

That is true with many of us, but when we were kids, the bullying ended when you went home.  Now kids can be relentless through twitter/facebook/blogs/texting photos to the whole school/etc...  In the '80s someone could write something horrible on your locker, now, that locker follows you everywhere and more and more people can pile on from the safety of an internet connection, which allows people to be much more brutal than they would have ever thought to be in person. 

That's true.

Stay away from the internet or at least keep it to your friends and family. Seems to me Gaga is almost glorifying bullying in an attention seeking way. As if she is so important to get a meeting with the president. And WTF is that going to do. This kid is now all over the internet for this and his parents will bury him in one of her freaking t-shirts? Give me a break. They should have taken action with their kid, not look to a celebrity to fix things.

Except you can limit who sees and posts on your Facebook wall.  You can turn off the computer on occasion, don't need to give out your phone number and the name of your blog to everyone.  

It kind of comes back to parenting - I remember my parents limiting how much time I could watch TV.  I wonder if Jamey's parents limited his online time or just thought it was a good thing that he was constantly 'connected'.

I watched the story on 2 news shows last night, kept waiting to hear how the parents transferred him to a new school or moved so he could have a fresh start. Nothing. They just sat back and waited for someone else to fix their child. That's such a popular strain with parents now, sit back and wait for someone to help your kid. Note to parents: that's pretty much your ONLY job in life/as a parent; wake up and help your child, the village is off duty.