Unpopular Opinion I'm Sure

In light of the recent media coverage regarding the rash of suicides due to bullying I feel like I need to get something off my chest. I know it is not going to be well received, but then again...I'm a conservative Christian. It is a daily occurrence that something I say or think would not be well received. I have quite a few liberal friends, and very often they are the ones who attack me without provocation for my beliefs. I put up with it gracefully, because I don't deem it my job to beat them over the head with my beliefs. When they ask me outright I tell them what I think, and I will defend my position when attacked, but for the most part I am fairly easy going and non-confrontational.

HOWEVER

A thought keeps bubbling up the surface lately which I cannot push back down and this is it:

At what point does a person get off the hook for killing themselves simply because some other people were hurting their feelings?

I'm going to say another unpopular thing right now.

The people who killed themselves weren't just victims, they were murderers. They killed a human being. Ok, it was themselves, BUT that doesn't make it alright. We live in a country of touchy-feely, utterly helpful, completely compassionate suicide hotline operators, counselors, psychiatrists, psychologists, civil liberties advocates, and support groups. There is no way not even one of these options was available to the people being bullied. In addition to all these helpful groups there are lawyers, police, campus security etc... There are ways to deal with obnoxious, evil hearted, vile people without ending your life. And I certainly believe the people who were bullying them were horrendous and disgusting blights on society. Bullying is a despicable thing to do. I was bullied extensively throughout middle school. My belongings were smashed and stolen, I was verbally and physically harassed, there were prank phone calls, false rumors, and written notes full of hateful things. I cried every day. I begged my parents to send me to another school. I refused to go on the 8th grade trip where I would more or less be left to the wolves for an entire weekend. I lived, ate, and breathed the fear of being bullied for months.
But what I didn't do was kill myself or anyone else.
And don't think I didn't consider it. Please. One of my favorite things to think about was coming to school with a gun and shooting my tormentors. I'm serious, I really thought about that often. You wonder how someone can get to the point where they can believe that the abuse won't stop without violence? Try eight months of continuous horror. I could have killed them. I could have killed myself.
BUT I DIDN'T DO IT.
I knew it was wrong. I knew killing myself was wrong too, and I also knew that 8th grade doesn't last forever. And you know what? I was right. It didn't. I lived through it and came out the other side as a better person. I'm a person who will always stand up for the little guy, who will stop in my tracks to help someone in need, rescue a stray dog, comfort a crying child, and I will never put up with watching a person bully someone else.
I feel like these teens did the wrong thing. They cheated themselves out of life. They don't get off the hook for that in my book. Their tormentors certainly shouldn't get off the hook either. The psychological torture they inflicted on these kids should not go unpunished. What they did was beyond the pale of wrong. Every person on this planet deserves love and respect no matter what because that is what GOD asks of us.
I'm just saying that you don't get a free ticket to murder yourself just because you are bullied. You are shouldered with responsibility for ending your life. You didn't have to do it. You chose to do it. You forewent all other possible options and cut your own life short. I can't stand behind that. And, if you really think about it, the bullies won. They are still here, being awful, and you are wiped off the planet. Goal achieved for them. The thing they hated is gone. Now they'll just have to find someone else to terrify.
Talk about a lose/lose situation. Sigh.
I just wish, for the sake of those that loved them, for the sake of their very souls, that they had not chosen death over the myriad of assistance available to them. It is sad, and it is horrible, and it is irreversible. Who knows what amazing lives they might have led and what bright lights have forever been cut off? What discoveries will never be discovered because they decided killing themselves was their best option? Hurt feelings are not worth dying over. I know it personally. I've lived through the bullying. I just wish they had.