Florida teenage commited suicide online
A Florida teenager who used a webcam to live-stream his suicide Wednesday was reportedly encouraged by other people on the Web site. Abraham Biggs, 19, of Pembroke Pines, Fla., had been blogging on an online body-building message board and had linked to his page on Justin.tv, a live video streaming Web site, where the camera rolled as he overdosed on prescription pills, according to Crane. Biggs, who had reportedly been discussing his suicide on the forums, also posted a suicide note. The video and blog postings have since been removed from the sites.
Crane said comments on the thread included an exchange about whether the image of Biggs’ motionless body was a still photograph or a video, and eventually resulted in one of the site’s visitors calling the police, who tracked down the teen through his computer IP address. Biggs was pronounced dead at 3:30 p.m. Nov. 19 — about 12 hours after he had begun blogging about his suicide. The official cause of death was suicide combined with drug toxicity. Crane said that benzodiazepines and opiates were found near the body, but a blood toxicology to quantify just how much Biggs consumed is still under way. Crane said that at least one of the prescription drugs was in Biggs’ name. Biggs had struggled with depression, according to his father, and had been prescribed medication for bipolar disorder.
Source: ABC News
Comments(123)
why would u post this?
ill solve this epic argument before it starts.
suicide is illegal.
Just a victims the Internet
Goodnight Sweet Prince
suicide is painless
natural selection.
Now if only all the 4chan twats would follow suit..
Anyone got the video
What does 4chan have to do with this?
Rapidshare links, anyone?
rs link pls
Florida.Teen.Comitted.Suicide.online.2008-DiAMOND out!!
->INSERT LONG SUICIDE DISCUSSION HERE<-
Who does not like a train wreck? I mean it is tragic, but maybe we can learn from it……..
rs link pls….
you guys serious about the rs links?
damn, you ain’t got no moral.
ok, i gotta say something cuz this is going too far…What the hell is wrong with u people?!?! asking about rs links of someone’s death!?!? hello??? is that what u jerk off at? his idea of online webcam suicide was pretty stupid but u peoplke asking about links to see his death is like too much…!!! Am I the only one with freakin common sense here?!
nice. Now do the same, Martin. I ORDER YOU.
This is disgusting. Anyone who would download this is sick. You’re no better than the people on that message board who did nothing to stop this
I think a good idea would be not allowing comments on this post.
I feel you Georgio. People on the internet are freaking weird trying to act like clowns. On topic, this is a very sad way to die especially when you have people pushing you to do it.
Dejavu!!, didn’t some kid years ago done exactly the same think? This is kinda getting old. Do something original already.
@9
If it involved people telling some guy to kill himself or “an hero” then it was probably 4chan.
we need rapidshares ppl hop to it
Good riddance.
One less idiot in the world.
I agree with @1… why would you post this?
Seriously?
Martin……?
There have been an awful lot of pointless posts on this site recently aimed purely at amassing lots of comments and generating lots of ‘return hits’ to check these comment (looks good to advertisers and brings in more cash for the site)… but posting about some kids internet suicide…
irrelevant and low imo.
what the hell?
thats some serious stuff right here, i mean its okay if somebody selects death on his own – its his life
here in germany its against the law, so if you do suicide (or help somebody todo suicide) you go to prison xd
what sucks is that he made it public for everyone, i mean, that guy just wanted attention 4 real
burn in hell b1tsch
“ill solve this epic argument before it starts.
suicide is illegal.”
Are you really this stupid?
Ok, fine. I’m just going to address ONE issue with this (there are many more). If it’s illegal, how the hell are you going to punish someone who actually does it? You can’t.
Anon delviers
http://www.vkmag.com/videos/videos_man_pleegt_zelfmoord_achter_webcam/
He did it for the lulz.
Grok… i really dont think he meant anything like that by it. I dont get why that comment bothered you.
this is really sad, this guy was a teen weightlifter? Could be (like i was) a person with low self esteem who wants to bulk up. People like this can be somewhat solitary, the fact that he communicated so much on the internet to the point of video chatting kinda goes along with that.
He was just depressed and tired, probably wanted to maintain a low body fat and high muscle ratio… which really does depress you when youre eating less and at the same time trying to push your body.
Suicide 2.0
@28:You told him, the silly sausage!
@16+17+28:Check these links out.
http://anonym.to/?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
http://anonym.to/?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R3tard
Replace last 3 with e.
#28 grok
are you really that stupid for not understanding the joke?
i feel sorry for the guys parents, having your beloved child die like that must be so painfull, have some respect and stop posting immature stupid comments. i think this is really sad
@26 and @1
its info, i enjoy it, if you dont like it that GTFO
three thumbs up for everyone who wrote “rs links plz” xD i knew s.o. would write it… the level of compassion here equals 4chan, and i l-l-l-like it =-D
thank you for the post cause i really had no idea before,that in this world,there are some idiot ppl whose thinking suicide is better than living in pain!
so anybody who read my comment bear in ur mind: dont try suicide or i would say u are most moron ppl in this world!
Your stupid comments reminds me “Untraceable” with Diane Lane.
Rest in piece Abraham [*]
@36 im glad your at the other end of a computer becuse if you said that in my presence i would headbutt you real hard
http://uselessjunk.com/article_full.php?id=106600
me being mentally ill almost did the exact same thing at 19 yo but without the blogging & webcam attention bit, the worst of my time was 18-20 now at 31 i look back and am so damn glad i did not finnish myself, if you bare with the hard times it should make you stronger, cruel bastards thou whoever talked him into doing it, damn shame
if it was a body building blog they should have talked him into exercising really hard so all he wanted to do was have a meal and a sleep, decent food and a good sleep can fix stupid thoughts
Suicide is not a ’cause of death’.
.-
This is sad..
But oddly enough I want to see the video
i told u i was hardcore
For everyone saying people are sick for wanting to watch it. The people who want to watch it are just as sick as the person you feel sorry/sad for commiting suicide. So find somewhere else to hassle people , I think your sick for feeling sorry for someone youve never met. You typed your sorrys and sadness without any actual emotion. (excluding anyone whos had a friend die by suicide), then they might at least have had the feelings they typed.
I just checked out myspace and he has 3 accounts. Here’s the description on one of them ..
Hi there, Mr. Biggs speaking. I’m a good hearted guy, I care a lot about my friends and my family and I would do almost anything for them. I’m the kind of person that is there for my friends regardless of time, I tell all my friends even if it’s 3-4AM and they need someone to talk that they can always call and I’ll never turn them away. I am very goal oriented, I know what I want to do with my life and I’m working towards it. I’m a nice guy but I’m not a carpet, I don’t let people walk on me, so as long as you stay on my good side there won’t be any problems. Ok that’s all I have to say if you wanna find out more just message me.
just emo kid inspired by teh “Chocolate Rain”
@36 ludjer
you are a sad pr!ck.
Absolutely pathetic.
Please fück off to whichever “teens recently commited suicide on the internet information” sites that you usually frequent. This site is ’supposedly’ supplying “hot info about new scene releases”
Im with @40, you need a healthy slap @sshole.
killing yourself is legal if you don’t need help to do so. (at least here in canada … and anywhere in the world as nobody can condemn you if you sceed)
Here are some quotes …
I don’t need a reason to kill myself—I need a reason not to. –Jennifer Jason Leigh, in Single White Female
That’s why on the back of a brown paper bag
he tried another poem
And he called it “Absolutely Nothing”
Because that’s what it was really all about,
And he gave himself an A
and a slash on each damned wrist,
And hung it on the bathroom door
because this time he didn’t think
he could reach the kitchen.
-ANON
last one …
There was both bravery and perhaps a lack of it in his action. The physical act of actually getting a gun, loading it, setting himself up with it, and pulling the trigger, which I went over in my mind again and again in my effort to understand him, did require physical courage—just like the act of jumping off the Empire State Building, which someone else I knew much more peripherally, did. But what of the courage of facing life’s challenges? I concluded that for him, bred to a different idea of courage, it was not easy to find valor in living out a humiliating demeaning life with no apparent light at the end of the tunnel. … I finally concluded that my friend was not a coward; that he simply had not reached the perspective on life that could have enabled him to carry on.
- citation from a listserv
the saddest thing is that it wasn’t an attempt … and no one called before the end. There are many sick people out there who wanted to watch a child killed herself … live on the internet and I bet the recorded the whole thing.
dont download this wait for a proper this 1 is out of sync his lips dont move
useless people taking up air.. when they end there useless life, means I get more air.. its like the lottery
.I have no respect for people that kill themselves just to get attention..
I saw this video last night on theync.com, its very short, it only shows him laying there and a detective walking in pretty much..
http://theync.com/media.php?name=6614-webcam-suicide
Rapidshare links for the video plz ty.
http://66.102.9.132/search?q=cache:iCJ0Fwq-DVwJ:forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php%3Ft%3D112065561+http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php%3Ft%3D112065561&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=uk&client=firefox-a
I didn’t see anyone pushing him to do it
I`ll wait for the dvd rip…or the screener
“I have no respect for people that kill themselves just to get attention..”
and you are bipolar as well? moron …
!!!!!NUKED!!!!!!
commited = committed
He was a nigrar? Good riddance then.
hiyabouy..
actually it is only technically illegal in 6 states, North and South Dakota, Washington, New Jersey, Nevada, and Oklahoma, and none of those states have ever imposed a punishment for attempting.
wow i just googled it do DEATh and i still cant find the ENTIRE video, like wow, i think its interesiting he killed hims self via a webcam…..
@55
just sad.
@49 & @40
Have you guys even read RLSLOG’s about page?
“The aim of this website is to provide fresh information about new scene releases and also other interesting software and tech news.”
This event is obviously tech related, so why shouldn’t it be posted here? It’s your own choice to read it, no one was forcing you, so bug of with the lame comments.
And the death of other people, and death itself, have always fascinated humans throughout the centuries, so why would today be different?
Darwin award
Attempted suicide is a serious crime anyone found guilty should be dealt with serverly i vote for the death penalty
@55 i cant go past the first page………??? what gives?
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anyone have link to full vid?
C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER
martin how can you post something like this… AND IN TECH NEWS…
i have finally decided to track you down and smack you in the face you little kunt…
this is so sad – and all those of you laughing at it are really weak – i hope you never have to go through something like this…
daft
To answer ‘why was this posted’? The answer is ‘free speech’.
People who do not like the subject matter would best be served by moving along, without comment. Doing otherwise does nothing to help your position.
@ 68 This is not sad,Sad is the millions of people around the world dying of a terminal illness This is just a thoughtless prick with less sense than he was born with
The only sick person is that poor bastard that comitted suicide.It’s all about beeing famous in USA.I guess he didn’t find a better way
.Don’t feel sorry for such people.
Why are artist only famous after dead. No point in being famous if they are dead. No rewards what so ever.
do we know if he was rlslog fan…..if so…we need too replace him…
This is actually very relevant and in my opinion, Martin’s obligated to post this. This is serious. Now there’s going to more government-scrutiny on internet usage. This ruins it for everyone. But i guess it had to happen sometime.
rest in peace….
this is kinda BS
there is always solution to each problems avoiding doing that
waa waa waa, almost 150000 people die every day way or another, this was just one of them. If youre going to suicide and video it, at least think of something less boring than pills.
No, I havent watched it nor am I going to.
good riddance, one less suburban emo f4ggot that goes trough life whining about how bad he has it.
“I told u I was hardcore”
that was cool. i wonder what will come out tomorrow. why is anyone shocked by this? good viral video. thanks for the post.
i just saw the video and honestly it’s sad. just seeing a minute of it made me feel horrible and so imagine the sick bastards that actually watched it as it was happening. RIP A. Biggs. Dumb decision though, i dont condone suicide.
We all die at some point. Some people are too weak to live life. He is one of those people. Yeah its sad but it was his choice. Many people take their own lives every day how is this any different. Oh yeah the moron put it on the web where it will live forever in one form or another. In essence he will live forever maybe that was kinda the point. Someone so unnoticed and insignificant wanted fame. Its been done before by a couple of kids in colorado remember.
Certainly is sad. I still watched the video, and it was pretty stupid. Just some kid lying on his bed.
You know what else is sad? When the Iraqi’s were decapitating western prisioners and uploaded the video to the net… but I still went to Ogrish (now called LiveLeak) just to watch them.
It’s part of human nature… many many people, despite how wrong it is, will still have a desire to watch these videos. Stop hating on them for it.
@83
exactly so who has the full vid!!!!
show me LINK!!! i wana see it, i googled it, nothing
@84 dude get a life. Go download something else you morbid fool.
Imo its okey to joke about, life dosent have to be too serious. It gets too depressing to take all serious matter in a serious way. But I agree that its weird to post this here.
“Today is my Death”
Darwin strikes again.
Suicide 2.0 – NUKED! We need Reloaded to crack it!
Cats likes to die alone. Thats why I like them. Don`t bother the living.
its pretty said that this has happened but please dont blame BB.com or the Misc section. If you read thru the post they did really egg him on. The suicide note itself is a copy and paste from the web. No one took him seriously i guess because of his past trolling on the forum. still a sad thing for anyone to happen
WHERE CAN I SEE THE VIDEO??? I WANT TO SEE IT!!! give me the link
This is wrong, I cant belive that some one would enjoy it!
The one who’s encouraged him is a murderer!
Whats the difference between him and killer?
lmaooooooooooo @ 51
What the hell are you all talking about?
Have any of you seen the video?
It’s just of some joker lying on the bed and then his buddy walking in with a toy gun and a cop uniform.
THE COP HAS PINK TOY SCISSORS IN HIS HOLSTER FOR GOD SAKE!!
Why So Serioussssss?
r u serious?? All the people on here saying its sad… The world is better off with one less MORON willing to do this.
I warn everyone please do not down the movie clip. As it has been nuked and you have to wait for the proper to come out. The movie clip I watched it and it goes out of sync pretty quickly and it has Ivtc and also it has been overcropped.
Please and I say this with the at most respect that you please wait for the proper to be released.
basically, he did it in front of a camera so he wanted an audience, therefore watching this movie isn’t wrong
hope he likes the realm of the dead, cause buddy is stuck there now
This is what you do after hours of WoW or CS
who cares. thousands of people kill themselves everyday, personally i think suicide is for cowards. LIFE ISN’T THAT BAD, it will always get better, just (wait) and see.
@96 where did you find the video clip? even if its nuke point me in the direction
@94/Bommer99, That was an EMT. They usually carry scissors to cut away clothing to reach to apply defibrillator paddles or to get to a wound and so on..
This was covered on a major news channel[wouldn’t they have done some crosschecking??) and a couple of guys on the BB forum actually called the police.
Tiz Sad stuff.
RIP
awesome… just kill yourself; earth is already overpupulated!
All the “compassion” out there is amazing.
So when are all of you gonna do the same?
I read the note he left.. Whoa this is really sad =[
do not kill yourself like that. kill 10 people and then kill yourself. make this earth a better place.
ps: dont kill me
Here’s the release:
http://www.notorrents.su/Florida.teenage.commited.suicide.online.CAM.NoBoDYGiVeSaFoCK
When posting useless news like this, you ask for flaming.
People really need to stop blaming the teen and calling him a moron. He was depressed. He had his own problems. Just because he isn’t a kid in Africa starving doesn’t mean he would all of a sudden have the greatest will to live.
Life’s tough sometimes yes but for him, you do not know what he has been through or how he’s mind works. So before you judge someone, think a little.
it just astounds me how many “the world is better without him” and “just one less weak loser” comments are on here.
i never knew so many ignorant people know how to use a pc.
and then we wonder how on earth someone like bush can get elected twice – and all the other $hit that goes on in the world.
got forbid any of you have to go through a friend or family going out like this… severe depression is a serious illness and it is exacerbated by mood swings brought on by pills such as those used by bodybuilders. it has nothing to do with the guy being weak… he is 19… life is not that bad??? who are you to judge what goes on through a person’s head? its like saying f$ck her… she died of breast cancer because she wasn’t strong enough to overcome it… one less genetically impure b1tch to deal with.
You sad weak little people.
God forbid you show some emotion… coz you’re so strong and manly over the internet. Come to discuss this issue in person and you’ll be smaller than a little pus$y. I feel sorry for you and the way you live your life…
This is disgusting and good.
my first post…
i have bipolar. and the lack of understanding most of you have is amazing first of ill describe bipolar is not just ups and downs as most people feel them shure if you had a few loved ones die in close together you may know what mild depresion is. bipolr depresion is way beond that you go so low that you cant evan cry. your mind slows down you sleap 16 – 20 hrs a day. most people see them selves as better or worse than they are based on there mood bipolars have that to the extream. where most people would feel that they ugly for example when there down bipolar when there down take that way further they can become convincet that people are mocking them in the streats becase of how ugly they belive they are. on the ups the reverse is true. its like being on cocane for weeks at a time but evan better.
at least that was my expeariance and its defrent for evry bipolar.
based on the meds he od with painkillers and benzo’s he was not being treated for bp as benzos are used with extream cation the make make both highs and lows more extreame but can be usefull for anxity and mixed states.
also if he was relly priscribed bp meds he would have used them as most moodstablisers are more lethal than benzos and painkillers with some exception
@110 i agree with you. people are talking and they do not know what is it. please, someone close this topic??
Yes.. Please close this topic. The ignorance and lack of conscience is sickening.
This is really sad! RIP!
yes i agree. please close this topic too many people get ideas and there are way too many ignorant and un-educated primary school kids in here.
RIP young fella. see you soon!
Poor girl, and her family’s now suffering
so sad
@5, how the hell would you know. To Release Log, why post this in the first place? Are you guys demented? And to all you sick f—s wanting links to the video, get help please. Enjoying to watch a teenager (or anybody for that matter) take his own life is dispicable. Another -1 for RLSLOG.
Another one bites the dust
http://www.newtorrents.info/torrent/50591/teenager.commited.suicide.in.florida.CAM-iNTATION.html
for the sick bastards
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p…’.d
LMFAOOOOO
This is terrible, though it is interesting. i really just was thinking the other day, if someone had killed themselves .and filmed themselves doing it. and it ended up on the internet.
Since on the internet people do all sorts of crazy stuff and
and some one did it……
there is never a reason to kill your self.
im not watching the whole thing cant skulptura do a rip?
excuse the pun
another an hero… moving on..
Isn’t this a remake?
The UK one was way better, far more action…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Whitrick