New York (CNN) -- Almost 15 months since Tyler Clementi committed suicide, his older brother James wants people to know that "he's much more than the way that he died." Tyler was an 18-year-old freshman at Rutgers University in New Jersey when he jumped off the George Washington Bridge in New York on September 22, 2010, after prosecutors say his roommate and another Rutgers student spied on Clementi kissing another man via a computer webcam. His suicide ignited a media firestorm and thrust his brother into the national conversation in a way that James Clementi still finds difficult to grasp.
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"The tragedy is that the sadness at the end ... defines everything," James Clementi says
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Tyler Clementi killed himself after two students allegedly spied on him via webcam kissing a man
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His roommate goes on trial this month on 15-count indictment, including hate crimes
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James Clementi's interview with CNN's Jason Carroll airs on "Anderson Cooper 360"
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