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Suicide shown live online brings concerns, reminders

 
BY Heather Warlick | Published: December 2, 2008   

About a week before Thanksgiving, Abraham Biggs Jr. of Broward County, Fla., turned on his computer’s webcam and swallowed a lethal dose of prescription pills. From his bedroom, Biggs, 19, broadcast a live feed of his suicide, which an estimated 1,300 people watched.

photo - This photo of Abraham Biggs Jr. is from his Myspace page.
This photo of Abraham Biggs Jr. is from his Myspace page.

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Biggs had threatened suicide in online chat rooms for weeks before his suicide, authorities said. His suicide has prompted a virtual storm of commentary on whether viewers should have done more to get him help.

His father, Abraham Biggs Sr., believes the moderators of Justin.tv, the site on which the macabre webcast played out, and those watching share partial responsibility for his son’s Nov. 19 death.

"I think they are all equally wrong,” he told an Associated Press reporter. "It’s a person’s life that we’re talking about. And as a human being, you don’t watch someone in trouble and sit back and just watch.”

Jessica Hawkins, prevention services director for the state Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services Department, agrees.

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