This May, 14-year-old Jamey Rodemeyer of Buffalo, N.Y., posted a video for the It Gets Better Project on YouTube, an effort to encourage and reassure troubled and potentially suicidal gay youth. “Love yourself, and you’re set,” he wrote on his video. “I promise you, it will get better.” This past weekend—a day before a national summit on bullying—Rodemeyer committed suicide. Rodemeyer allegedly had been bullied for the year, much of which was documented on Rodemeyer’s Formspring account (a service that allows anonymous posts). “JAMIE IS STUPID, GAY, FAT ANND UGLY. HE MUST DIE!” One read. “I wouldn’t care if you died,” another said. “No one would. So just do it 🙂 It would make everyone WAY more happier!” Rodemeyer expressed his anguish on Facebook: “I always say how bullied I am, but no one listens,” he wrote. “What do I have to do so people will listen to me?” Shortly before he died, he began posting song lyrics. From the Hollywood Undead, he cribbed, “I just wanna say good bye, disappear with no one knowing…I don’t wanna live this lie, smiling to the world unknowing.” Then he culled a line from Lady Gaga’s song “The Queen”: Don’t forget me when I come crying to heaven’s door.” (ABC News)