Florida Teen Suicide in Front of Live Internet Audience, Videos, Photos, Complete Coverage
A 19-year-old committed suicide while broadcasting live on Justin.tv. He apparently took the pills before he started broadcasting and let the camera run for hours until he died. The police arrived to shut the camera off. A teenager committed suicide on a webcam while others watch, this is the first incident of its own, a first public misuse of Internet video service.
Abraham K. Biggs overdosed on pills and died in front of the camera, broadcasting it live on Justin.tv. For hours he appeared to be breathing until the users realized it must be something serious, then contacting police.
Biggs, who used the screen name “CandyJunkie” on the bodybuilding Website, started blogging about plans to kill himself 12 hours before he was found lying dead on his bed. He posted a link from bodybuilding.com to Justin.tv, a site that allows users to broadcast live videos from their webcams.
Some users who read the blog told investigators that they did not take him seriously because he had threatened suicide on the site before. The commenters, from both Justin.tv and from his forum in Bodybuilding.com, initially laughed and mocked him but later as they saw him dying, they informed police about the incident.
But Biggs’ family was infuriated that neither viewers nor the site acted sooner to save him.
“When (police) came in, the webfeed stopped. So that’s 12 hours of watching,” said his sister, Rosalind Biggs, who said her brother, struggled with bipolar disorder. “They got hits, they got viewers, nothing happened for hours.”
Rosalind Biggs described her brother as a friendly, social, outgoing person who struck up conversations with Starbucks baristas and enjoyed taking his young nieces to Chuck E. Cheese.
In a statement, Justin.tv CEO Michael Seibel said: “We regret that this has occurred and want to respect the privacy of the broadcaster and his family during this time.”
The Web site declined to release information on how many people were watching the broadcast. The entire site had 672,000 unique visitors in October.
Last year, another man died in England who hung himself to death on live TV after the fellow users pushed him to do the deed. This Florida incident looks similar but it appears he swallowed the pills before he came on Justin.tv. The initial comments in the forum, however, lack any sensitivity and seem to call him names. When someone is in dire straits, the last thing one should do is mock or tease them.
Incident Report
Early on a piece of wood is shown falling or being thrown onto the body, then a weapon’s red dot site scans the lower portion of the bed. The police come into the room with weapons drawn and block or shut off the camera.
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Suicidal Note of ABRAHAM BIGGS’
Ask a guy who is gonna OD (again) tonight anything
To Whom It May Concern,
I am going to leave this for whoever stumbles across my bookmarks later on.
I hate myself and I hate living. I think that if someone who knows me reads this they will know who I am. So I will leave this unsigned. I am an a@#hole. I have let everyone down and I feel as though I will never change or never improve. I am in love with a girl and I know that I am not good enough for her.
I have come to believe that my life has all been meaningless. I keep trying and I keep failing. I have thought about and attempted suicide many times in the past. I used to think of my failure as some mystical way of telling me that I was really meant for something meaningful. The only thing I dread, besides the pain, is the way my family will suffer.
I do not want my mother or father to think that it was anything they did that lead me to kill myself. I never really had any plans of leaving a note. I thought that I would not be able to describe why I want to do this and I am right. There is no way to tell you or anyone else why I dread every new day. My father had such high expectations for me and tried to give me every opportunity to improve upon myself. I let him down. I think that I am a major disappointment to him. I have a job but I’m always broke and I am in college but barely, I show up to class but that’s about it.
I want my life to end. I am tired of f@#$ing up everything. I am tired of people always telling me that they do not like me. I am tired of trying to be decent. I hope that someone finds this post and I hope that my parents know that I f@#$ed up not them. It is my fault I screwed up my own life.
The hate that rages within me, rages not for those I love so dearly or those who have crossed my path.
This hate rages full force towards me and only me.
I have long forgiven those who’ve hurt me, but I have not and cannot come to terms to forgive myself for the things I have done to myself, and the things I’ve done to hurt those in my life.
You have all touched my life in one way or another, especially those whom I call family.
I cannot tell you how sorry I am for ending my life the way I did. I hope that you can all find it in your heart to see it as way for me not suffering anymore and that I am finally at rest with myself, for being at rest with the guilt that constantly ate at me for so long.
Please forgive me all for taking my own life so early. I tried so hard to fight against this strong battle. I have reached out for help so many times, and yet I believe, I was turned away because of the things I did, that it is a punishment I am willing to take, for I know that being who I am has only brought myself and others pain.
I love you all and will forever live within the memories we created.
Forgive me.
Love always and forever,
As for my signature I will leave you with a quote so that if anyone reads this they will know it’s me, “Can’t feel pain if your dead? Just Saying”
[Source for this Suicidal Notes : NyDailyNews]
Forum Thread about suicide : [Thread-I] [Thread-II] [Forum]
Justin TV broadcast : [Suicide Video note] [Video Footage]
Note : This Video has been taken from iReport , just to aware the people about the incident and the bad part of such things.
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