19-yr-old commits suicide Live On Internet
November 21st, 2008 - 11:37 am ICT by Bupha Ravirot ( 4 comments )Abraham K. Biggs, a 19 year-old Broward County teen decided to commit suicide while broadcasting himself on Justin.TV, Wednesday after being challenged by viewers of his live webcasting channel Justin.TV and chat commenters on bodybuilding.com.
After being egged by audiences and forum member, Biggs, who had been considering suicide because depression and disappointment with life, overdosed on pills while on camera and appeared to stop breathing for hours in front of viewers of his Justin.TV and they all thought that was just a joke he made up.
After an unspecified amount of time, one of the forum member from India concerned by Biggs’ lack of movement and pleaded with the forum to call police. An hour later Biggs’ door room was busted down and BSO and paramedics arrived on the scene. The video kept running until police broke Biggs’ door down and blocked the camera’s view.
Before the suicide, Biggs had left his suicide notes posed expressing his failures in life conveyed a general sense of depression and disappointment. However none of the medias mention about Biggs’ family.
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November 21st, 2008 at 12:48 pm
He has tried this several times before. He knew how the website went with threads of that matter. He brought this upon himself. Bodybuilding.com cannot be blamed for his actions.
November 21st, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Well you guys left out the part that the police didnt actually send police until that indian guy called the third call…
January 17th, 2010 at 12:45 am
Regardless….terrible news!
January 24th, 2011 at 12:09 am
At nineteen he didn’t know about life…life changes all the time.You learn to be happy , by helping someone or something outside yourself.The more you think about yourself ,the more miserable you get.It’s really that simple.