Community | November 21, 2008 | 3 comments

19-Year-Old Commits Suicide live on the web

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In a tragic story from NewTeeVee, we learn that a 19-year-old user of the online live-streaming video service Justin.TV has apparently committed suicide in front of an audience of fellow forum dwellers egging him on during the process. The death has been confirmed with the Broward County medical examiner and the timeline has been pieced together from several different forums that have chronicled the unfortunate series of events.

Abraham K. Biggs and his family. Most of the participants, as well as the deceased Abraham K. Biggs, were denizens of bodybuilding forum bodybuilding.com. Biggs, also known as CandyJunkie on the forum and Feels Like Ecstasy on Justin.TV, is alleged to have been a “well known troll” on the forum. He created a thread in the “misc” category yesterday afternoon detailing the amount of drugs he planned to take with the intention to kill himself.
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3 comments // 19-Year-Old Commits Suicide live on the web

  • bedeboop
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      bedeboop  
    • I have to say I am having a hard time voting for this one either way. :( My reasons:

      1. Voting it up seems like voting FOR what the guy did, when I do not agree with it at all and it just seems WRONG. :( Like speaking ill of the dead if that makes sense.

      2. Voting it down hides at the same time hides it and what the internet provides for the "darker" side and those who watch something like this. I could never ever watch something like this at all. It kind of reminds me of the executions in the middle ages, where one and all came and watched. ICK! Don't want to support that either.

    • 3 years ago
  • arcticspirit
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      arcticspirit  
    • More info...
      he even posted a video of himself dying, Actually it was streamed live, a person in India called the police when he didn't move for hours... but its been removed

      Apparently one of the MODS om BB.com encouraged him to do it... (Arctic looked, it has been removed.)

      Before someone removes the suicide note, here it is:
      And this was openly mocked, he was encouraged by many to commit suicide.

      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"

    • 3 years ago
  • arcticspirit
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      arcticspirit  
    • My heart and prayers go out to his family and those who may feel like they could have stopped this, but didn't. This is very sad. People reach out in different ways now. Apparently that was his way.

    • 3 years ago

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