Thursday, November 27, 2008

Biggs webcam suicide and the moral implications...

Abraham Biggs seemed to have found refuge from his battle with bipolar disorder and depression within an online community at fitness website bodybuilder.com.

The 19-year-old community college student from Florida posted thousands of messages to the site's "misc" forum — most were about girls, parties or other teen issues, but some dealt with his mental illness and forum’s role in his life. 

"BB.com has become like a family to me (I know its kinda sad) but I find myself posting my life troubles and doubts on here, because I really don't want to talk to most ppl about stuff going on with me," he wrote in one post from August last year. 

On November 19, Abraham took a fatal overdose of drugs in front of a webcam, while members of the same "family" watched on — some failing to intervene, others actively encouraging the teen to kill himself. More...

See also:

  1. Abraham Biggs: Let's hope this doesn't happen again...
  2. Family's tribute to web suicide son...
  3. "Suicide town" Bridgend; yet another suicide, the 24th. in 2 years...

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