Florida Teen Commits Suicide With Live Web Audience

At 3 a.m. this past Wednesday Abraham Biggs announced via a website that he was going to kill himself. By 3 p.m. that day, the 19-year-old Broward College student was dead on his father’s bed. And a whole lot of people watched; some even egged him on.

By the time the authorities were called and police arrived at Biggs’ home it was too late. And people were still watching. The reality of the situation didn’t really sink in until after the police got there and were seen on the webcam standing over Abraham’s body.

The web cam ran the whole time.

“so that’s 12 hours of watching,” said the victim’s sister, Rosalind Bigg. “They got hits, they got viewers, nothing happened for hours.”

According to an autopsy Abraham Biggs died as a result of mixing opiates and benzodiazepine, which his family says he was taking for his bipolar disorder.

Sadly, Biggs is not the first person to commit suicide while people watched online. Wendy Crane, an investigator with the Broward County medical examiner’s office said she knows of a Florida man who shot himself in the head. Last year, a British man hanged himself during an online chat session.

“This is very, very sudden and unexpected for us,” [Abraham’s] sister said. “It boggles the mind. We don’t understand.”

Source: USA Today

Famous people who have committed suicide:

Diana Barrymore (1960), U.S. actress and writer (Drew’s Aunt) – drug and alcohol overdose

Jonathan Brandis (2003), American actor – hanging

Cheyenne Brando (1995), daughter of Marlon Brando – hanging

Kurt Cobain (1994), Lead singer of Nirvana – shotgun

Ray Combs (1996), former host of popular game show Family Feud – hanging

Dennis Crosby (1991), actor, son of Bing Crosby – gunshot

Lindsay Crosby (1989), actor, son of Bing Crosby – gunshot

Richard Farnsworth (2000), U.S. actor – gunshot

Sigmund Freud (1939), founder of psychoanalysis – morphine overdose

Rusty Hamer (1990), American former child actor (The Danny Thomas Show) – gunshot

Lois Hamilton (1999), American actress, model, author, aviatrix – sleeping pill overdose and suffocation

Brynn Hartman (1998), wife and murderer of actor Phil Hartman – gunshot

Ernest Hemingway (1961), American novelist – gunshot

Margaux Hemingway (1996), American actress and model, granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway – phenobarbital overdose

Michael Hutchence (1997), lead singer of Australian rock band INXS – hanging (disputed)

Richard Jeni (2007), comedian – gunshot

Johnny “J” (2008), American record producer – jumped from ledge

Alex Jordan (1995), American adult film actress – hanging

Hugh O’Connor (1995), actor – gunshot

Dana Plato (1999), American actress – drug overdose

Edie Sedgwick (1972), American socialite, Warhol superstar – overdose

Jay Stewart (1989), TV Announcer – gunshot

David Strickland (1999), actor – hanging

Hunter S. Thompson (2005), American author – gunshot

Vincent van Gogh (1890), Dutch Post-Impressionist painter – gunshot to chest

Source: Wikipedia

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