Have we as a society reached a new low?
Abraham Biggs, 19, logged onto his computer and then went to Justin.TV and told his live web cam audience he was going to commit suicide. He ended up doing just that. People watched as he took pills and went to sleep and 12 hours later, the police arrive and the video ended.
Thankfully we have some people in the world that tried to talk him out of suicide. Some just did not care at all since they said Abraham was on line before threatening suicide and never done anything. Some were sadistic enough to actually encourage him to complete his suicide attempt.
Sadly for Abraham Biggs no one took action soon enough to save his life. Someone did actually contact the web site and they were able to contact the police and had them respond to his house where they found Abraham Biggs dead.
The family reported that Abraham was bi-polar and was prescribed medications to treat his condition. An autopsy concluded Biggs died from a combination of opiates and benzodiazepine
The web site has not released how many people watched the suicide take place and claim they want to protect people’s privacy.
The site, Justin.TV, provides a place to view web cams and beside the viewing window is a section to chat with the person broadcasting the cam show.
Once Biggs signed in he announced his plans to kill himself for the section for bodybuilders.
He soon put his plan into action and swallowed some pills. Biggs went to sleep shortly thereafter and appeared to be breathing for several hours after the overdose.
Some watchers tried to talk him out of suicide. Some contacted the web site and was finally able to get him the help that he needed. Sadly that help did not arrive in time.
It has been reported that several thought it was yet another fake suicide attempt since he had talked about suicide before on this site. It was also reported that several joked and left comments like lol, hahaha and OMFG.
Some people went to the media to report that his was nothing special. They think that in this day in age of sites like facebook and myspace people have to broadcast stuff like this to be taken seriously so it is actually recorded.
What a day and time we do live in. First, my concerns would lie in the fact that if this was not the first time that he had claimed on line to the viewing community that he was going to commit suicide.
Then why did no one take any action then? I mean after all it has been a proven fact that most that commit suicide have left some sort of trail of evidence leading up to the fatal event. Could these other times been an outcry for help and once again people laughed out loud and did not pay any attention to him since he had said the same thing before.
For the people that actually encouraged him, I cannot actually say what I want to say here. How sick has society become that we actual have people encouraging someone to take their own life. Could it be the need for more reality? Not sure, but I cannot comprehend how any human could actually encourage another to take his life.
I work in a field where the matter of life and death is a daily event. I know that some deaths there’s actually nothing that can be done, it’s a fact of life that people die, but to watch someone on line for 12 hours is not comprehensible to me.
The family reported this was very sudden and unexpected. His sister also said it boggles the mind and they don’t understand. They are not a lone.
I want to offer the family my condolences.
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