Abraham Biggs, a college student in Florida, committed suicide by taking an overdose of pills over his webcam. The streaming video was hosted on Justin.tv, and many individuals commented on the discussion board throughout the incident. The reactions varied from encouragement to get on with the suicide to pleas for Abraham to stop.
Although some watchers eventually contacted the website's manager urging them to contact the police, by the time cops arrived, Abraham had been dead for hours. At that time, the video was still running.
The 19-year-old first announced his plans to kill himself and provided a link to his webcam earlier that day on a body building website. However, several members on the site said that they did not take his threats seriously because he had threatened to commit suicide before. The teenager's father is mortified that it took so long for people watching and the owners of Justin.tv to respond; he said that Abraham's threats should have been seen as a cry for help, and that this whole incident could have been prevented.
Unfortunately, many experts are saying that this sort of thing is not out of the ordinary, citing young people's increasing use of social networking sites. I'm not sure if I believe that had a major role in this incident. I just pray for his family and hope that they have the strength to come to terms with the loss of their son and the public way his life was lost.
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