Suicide Caught on WebCam

Posted on November 22nd, 2008 - By Bossip Staff

Categories: News, R.I.P., SMH

Posted by Bossip Staff

Abraham Biggs threatened suicide before, but finally went through with it live on the web:

A college student committed suicide by taking a drug overdose in front of a live webcam as some computer users egged him on, others tried to talk him out of it, and another messaged OMG in horror when it became clear it was no joke. Some watchers contacted the Web site to notify police, but by the time officers entered Abraham Biggs’ home, a scene also captured on the Internet, it was too late.

Biggs, a 19-year-old Broward College student who suffered from what his family said was bipolar disorder, or manic depression, lay dead on his bed in his father’s Pembroke Pines house Wednesday afternoon, the camera still running 12 hours after Biggs announced his intentions online around 3 a.m.

It was unclear how many people watched it unfold.

Biggs was not the first person to commit suicide with a webcam rolling. But the drawn-out drama and the reaction of those watching was seen as an extreme example of young people’s penchant for sharing intimate details about themselves over the Internet.

Biggs’ family was infuriated that no one acted sooner to save him, neither the viewers nor the Web site that hosted the live video, Justin.tv. The Web site shows a video image, with a space alongside where computer users can instantly post comments.

No doubt, this is a d@mn shame, and we can sympathize with the family about their loss. However, with regard to making cyber threats on one’s own life, the point at which other people need to step in is, at best, vague.

Where does the responsibility for this young man’s untimely death lie?

Discuss

More pics of Abraham below.

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  • Christmas Jones

    hannibal aint first today

  • Christmas Jones

    Dang, okay, Now I wish I could delete that comment I just wrote because it was so insensitive in light of this event…God forgive me.

    This is incredibly awful, and I feel for his family like yu wouldn’t believe…people in this world JUST DO NOT CARE!!! Even when human life is about to slip away, kids or whoever were just egging him on?? People are going to burn, you guys, they will burn…

    Why would he do this…satan is running wild these days on a real tip. We need to listen to the voice of God and the voice of reason which God put in all of us. YOUR LIFE IS TO PRECIOUS TO WASTE LIKE THIS! SOMEONE LOVES YOU WHETHER YOU BELIEVE IT OR NOT!!!!

  • Soldier Of Truth

    In this day and age people should know by now to NEVER take death threats lightly no matter whom it’s directed towards!

    My prayers go out to this young mans family! You can’t blame the internet for this one though!!

  • Eva

    I cant even understand why people were egging him on??? Who are these people? All I have to say is Jesus come, Jesus come!

  • CEE

    Man,first of all the responsibility of this man’s life laid in his own hands and his familys if he was at the point on that day where he was ready to commit actual suicide, Surely, me being in the medical field, there must of been some sort of signs of depression or abnormal behavior his family must have seen and took note of, and then seekin out this young man some help, you can fault the viewers that witnessed this, as many hoax and stunts and shyt that goes on in the internet, Surely if one truly believed that this young man was about to take his life they would of contacted the authorities immediately.

  • Sommer

    When I rfirst ead this pain went to my head. to think this young man though his only escape was to kill himself. We will never know what he could have given us. to also know there were people eging him on is disgusting. what has become of society when we get pleasure in telling someone to end their life. Then my final emotin was the pain the family must be feeling. they can not feel their pain among themselves but now everyone will know what they are going thru. I really hope they turn this tragedy into something postive, and help some other family who may be going thu this very real pain. my prayers will be with you.

  • Candid Canuck

    disturbing. very disturbing indeed.

  • beloved

    This is truly sad,people are so cruel, but if his family knew he was bipolar or was depressed why didn’t they get him help? trust leave those bastards who encourage him to kill himself in Gods hand.

  • eyecandy

    I usually don’t post, just ghost. But this story hit me like a brick!! We are watching people die online!!??? Some loving it, some in horror, but all watching,watching, watching. I am not immune, i would’ve probably watched too, although I would have definitley notified authorities. And this poor chile takes his life for notoriety! watching and being watched. Reality shows, YOUTUBE,talent contests,etc. are the current “cult of personality”. I wonder where this is all leading? I don’t have the answers, but with this brothas “cybercide” (I think I just coined a new phrase)and other media induced tragedies, what’s next? Discuss…

  • PeepEye

    That is really really sad.

    Abraham,

    I know that you were in pain, but that was an incredibly selfish, hurtful and most punishing thing that you have ever done to anyone. Both your relatives and friends will always be hurt and angry that you didn’t allow them to help you. They will never forgive you for it. They will always be haunted by the fact that you didn’t ask for help and they couldn’t give it. You chose to end your life rather than get help. You chose to broadcast your suicide to the world to show your hatred and anger towards them rather than to allow them privacy.

    You chose all that and they will never forgive you. They will always love you, but they won’t forgive you.

    I know because my 17 year old brother hung himself in the living room so my parents would find him when they came home from work. That was the most hurtful thing done to my parents in their whole life time.

  • memchee

    This is a shame. Him and his family are in my prayers.

    I’m suprised that someone would do such a thing online and people sitting around watching.

  • TASHA

    THREE SIGNS THERE THAT HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS SHOULD OF TOOK NOTE OF REALLY. 1.DIAGNOSIS OF MANIC DEPRESSION 2. DIAGNOSIS OF BEING BI-POLAR 3. PREVIOUS THREATS OF COMMITING SUICIDE. WHEN A PERSON HAS THESE KIND OF MENTAL DISORDERS YOU DON’T TAKE THERE THREATS LIGHTLY, WAY BEFORE NOW THERE SHOULD OF BEEN SOME SORT OF OUTSIDE INTERVENTION FOR HIM. HE’S SICK HE DOESN’T HAVE THE THOUGHT PROCESSES TO GET HELP HIMSELF. AN OUNCE OF PREVENTIONIS WORTH MORE THAN A POUND OF CURE. THEY CAN’T FAULT NO ONE BUT THEMSELVES.

  • swizzkhocolate

    This young man’s life was in his own hands. Currently I work at a psychiatric hospital and I am a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology. One thing I am sure about is that people who want to die (by way of suicide) usually do and those who threaten or attempt suicide as a means to cry out for help usually do not die. This young man was serious about wanting to kill himself and there was probably little that could have been done at this point to save him. He fell between the cracks in my opinion and society at large failed him. he has probably been suffering for years and never really received the type of help he needed from the community he resided in (including family, friends, religion etc.) I send my prayers out to his loved ones.

  • adiamondcenter

    saaaaaaaaaaaaddd !!!!!!! bLESSES 2 HIS PEEPS

  • DR. CARPENTER

    HAVE MERCY LAWD… :(

  • sopranojersey

    That guy is a LAME…Nothing in this world is that hard, to take your own life. Anything that does not kill you makes you a stronger person….so he PUNKED OUT in my opinion.

  • Film

    This is disturbing.

    swizzkhocolate

    Good luck defending your dissertation.

  • uhbeautifulmind

    Wow@PeepEye

    I am so sorry…that had to be tough for everyone involved.

    My aunt committed suicide a few years ago with drugs and she was as tough as they come. A pitbull was nothing compared to her. It just goes to show you never know someones limit. And every threat should be taken seriously.

  • ubetterwork

    i have a history of bi polar, manic depression – a close relative was even in Bellvue in NYC for it and died there of old age

    and I for sure have it I am not in any means suicidal but -depression everyday-moody as hell -my family tells me to get help and when you are a bi polar , manic depressive you just will not do it -unless you are locked up they cannot force you

  • Jay

    i echo many people that say this article is truly – disturbing. there has to be more to this story. a child suffering of bipolar disease or “maniac depression” should be under strict watch…regardless of age. SMH at the site. People are indeed heartless. I would have to say this untimely death ULTIMATELY lies in the hands of his guardians…

  • Film

    uhbeautifulmind & PeepEye

    Sorry about your aunt and brother.

  • Ms Burgess

    It really isn’t anybody’s responsiblity but his and his family. Yes if I were watching it I would have notified police but there is really nothing nobody could have done. He had already made the decision to take his own life. What needs to be done is things like that should be banded and that website should have to pay a fine for letting something like that be published on there website.

  • Necy

    OMG!!! I was horrified when I first heard about this on the news this morning… I hope that he has the peace that he was looking for….I can’t even begin to imagine what his family is going through!!! I’m so shocked…WOW

  • Necy

    and for the person calling him lame!!! how dare you?? HE WAS FUC*ING SICK… he had mental problems!! read the whole story before you talk sh*t.. JUST PRAY TO GOD THAT NOTHING LIKE THAT EVER HAPPENS TO YOUR SORRY ASS…

  • phrapp

    Im just speculating here, but he looks kind of gay. I wouldn’t be suprised if lots of black gay males committ suicide rather than come out to such a hostile homophobic community. I have two black and gay friends and they have the toughest time with their families and therefor with their lives.

  • Kimberlee

    wow. what a post.

    @peepeye & uhbeautifulmind…. my condolences to you and your families.

    I too understand the effects of suicide, or I should say in my case repeated attempts at suicide, has on a family. My mother tried several times, and we recognized it was a cry for help. Nursed her back from the brink at least three times from severe overdoses (where we thought she’d be completely brain damaged) in hospitals for weeks at a time… I know the fear, the anger, the guilt…the toll this takes on a family. But no amount of therapy, no amount of tears, support and love, etc., can help if a person wants to die. I was the person the police called the morning that she was found. I thought she finally accomplished what she had wanted, only to learn that she had a stroke at 55. The drugs really took their toll. My point is, family can only do so much.

    This is a terrible shame. He was so young, with so much to look forward to.

    God bless his family. May they find healing and peace. And furthermore, God bless those misguided ppl who egged him on. They’ll live with that shame for the rest of their lives. May God use for good what the devil intended for evil.

  • Divalicious

    Necy, selfish is the better word….and Ms Burgess why should the website be banned for someone’s stupidity?…I love justintv.com so I hope they dont ban it.. What do you want a disclaimer on the site saying if you’re going to kill yourself turn the webcam off first??? He was sick, but selfish and he wanted to go out with people watching that sh*t

  • DR.FUNK

    Sympathy to the family.At the risk of sounding harsh…there is no sure or permanent “fix” for bi-polarity.Should he suffer with a devastating lifelong illness to placate those who think that “nothing is worth killing yourself over”? As for his doing it in front of an audience: Nothing new here.Before the internet-suicidal people were sometimes prone to generate a crowd.He won’t be the last to do it.Neither the internet nor the website is at fault.

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  • B-Nice

    Unfortunately, this young mans disorder ended on a live webcam where those who watched were not medically professionally equipped to psychologically apply any sort of medical advice to save his life. It appears the act of suicide on webcam was his way of asking for help, its sad the help he needed did not come soon enough.

    This is a lesson to our legislative government that some parts of the internet has gone to far. If people knew they were being monitored on certain sites, they would not be inclined to do this kind of stuff for attention. It seems alot of people are doing things on the internet to get attention or make history.

    My heart goes out to his family, perhaps more will continue to be done about our current mental health system, and his death will not be in vain.

  • DR.FUNK

    @PHRAPP:

    I was thinking the same thing.

  • DR.FUNK

    @B-NICE:

    How far would you like GOVERNMENT to go in regulating what you read/see on the internet?

  • linnski

    i’m impressed and moved by the comments and feelings expressed about this story. May God Bless you all!

  • NaNa

    I dont think government intervention is the issue, this is a breakdown in the personal sphere of life,the family which govt can’t legislate. We don’t know how to communicate, how to help as most are obsessed with others lives and not living ‘their’ life but trying to live others. I am sure there were signs, cries for help but again our sensitivities are so gone, conflict resolution skills nonexistent…no this isn’t about gubment its about people.

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  • rainbowrabbit

    @sopranojersey

    Until you’ve dealt with something like bipolar disorder, then you have no idea what a person is going through. Educate yourself on the illness before making judgments about others. And while you’re at it, you can keep your rude and condescending remarks to yourself.

    Oh, and as for your comment about what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, if I became blind, death, and a quadruple amputee, would that make me stronger? Dumbass.

  • dark cable

    Tragic…

  • ~Peachalicious

    OK so I’ve been reading about this situation, from the kid’s myspace page he seems as though he was very loved. In his suicide note, he said he does not blame his parents but himself for his own failures. Said he did some deep dark things,the funny thing is his friends were saying why didn’t he just reach out to them or someone?They were just hanging out or just spoke to him recently. I will never understand the mind of a person willing to apply this permanent solution to temporary problems. You can’t take this back once this happens. As a survivor of a suicide victim I will say note or not this leaves so many devistated and confused. May God bless his family and have mercy on his soul!

  • DEJA

    Those left in the wake of suicide “victims” will never fully understand the depths of their pysche, which make them take such a permanent solution to temporary problems. Nor can blame be laid at anyone’s feet. With that said, I do not assign blame, but instead responsibility. There are reports that state he was diagnosed with, and took medication for bipolar disorder. As parents of a mentally ill child, you have a responsibility to supervise their actions, especially at such a young age. He was still a teenager. People think just because a person is on medication for their mental illness that makes everything okay, but medication coupled with frequent therapy is the best prescription to coping with mental disease. This is a sad, sad tragedy and goes to further prove the loss of love for each other as humans ( I read some people on the blog were encouraging him to do it) but this young boy clearly should not have been left to his own devices, especially during a manic epsiode.

  • Flame Extinguisher

    I hate to be all racial and shiiiit, but… A few things:

    - If this had been a white guy, they would have stopped him;

    - The articles are not discussing his sexuality and this young man was dealing with that big time;

    - he was on a bodybuilding site and that tells a lot, considering he isn’t a bodybuilder;

    - some poster watching the event called him a fa@@ot;

    - had he been a white guy, the posters would have wanted to have sex with him (that’s just how gay white men work–ask any gay black man you know; they will co-sign this–i asked my brother, a gay black man, and he agrees);

    - people in this country are sick, weird, and hateful.

    I COULD NOT IMAGINE SEEING THIS AND WATCHING AS IF IT WERE SOME REALITY TV SHOW THAT I ENJOYED. PEOPLE ARE SICK.

  • crustbetweenmytoes

    Family often is helpless in dealing with this type of this. Blowing in the wind. Not knowing what to do when, if anything. Mental illness and depression are terrible things. The only thing else I would say is that we see or know of someone who is talking suicide, please intervene. For those who have to dealing with the threats and the moods on a regular basis, I know that it is wearing. Overwhelming. Do not give up. Your loved one cannot help him or herself. They need you.

  • VodkaLova

    This young man had problems, and unfortunately he felt like suicide was the only way out. I don’t feel blame should be put on anyone in this situation because no matter what was said or done if a person wants to end their life they will do it. To the people saying his parents/family/friends should have done more to help him, I’m sure they would have if they could but if this young man was that determined there was nothing that anyone could have done to save him. Yes there is medication that he can take, or he could have been placed in a hospital, or seen a therapist, but who’s to say that would have worked either. Alot of people suffering from this disease have done those things and still took their life. The tragedy of it all is that his family/friends are now left to move on without him, and I am sure not a day will go by that they don’t sit there and wonder what they could have done to do more. But there is nothing you can do when someone feels that helpless with their life. Now they have to pick up the pieces and try to move on with their lives, that is going to be their challenge.

    To the people claiming he was gay, he was not. He had a girlfriend and young son.

  • Kimberlee

    i don’t see what race has to do with this tragedy.

  • California Pixie

    @Deja

    Nor can blame be laid at anyone’s feet. With that said, I do not assign blame, but instead responsibility.

    ~*~*~*~

    I totally agree with your comments. You would think that anyone with common sense would feel that they have a moral obligation to intervene…to do something. Another news outlet stated that users of the website indicated he had been threatening suicide. How hard would it have been for any one of those indivduals to email the site admin and let them know that username…is threatening suicide online? I wonder if any of them will feel any sense of remorse. This really saddens me.

  • chloe

    Maybe those people didn’t know if he was serious or not. I would of thought it was a hoax and logged off.

    The only people responsible for this is the young man himslef and his family. They knew he was ill. They should of made sure he took his meds and continued to see his physciatrist.

  • E’Bri Bri

    I think this is very tragic. Having lost my brother to suicide, I know what its like to feel aftershocks of suicide. Im not placing blame on anyone but suicide is a selfish act to commit for any reason. And not to play the race but black men are hardly ever treated for mental illnesses because of lack of insurance coverage and as well as shame. If someone is crazy or has mental issues in a black family, 9 times out of 10, they are the outcasts.

    I also would hope that the people who were egging him on thought that it was a joke because in no way, shape or form is that funny. This whole story could have been prevented had someone reached out to this young man, I just wished someone would have reached my brother as well.

  • Shuckin’ and Jivin’

    I know this young man personally, I went to middle school with him and he was on my friend list. R.I.P Mr. Biggs.

  • WordtotheWise

    My heart goes out to this young man and his family. Bi-polar is no joke. I have friends that suffer from this, and according to them, the meds they take are horrible as well.

    Why anyone would want to sit and view someone committing suicide or any other grievous act is beyond me. It just goes to show you that people’s minds are demented and desensitized to such things. I have a friend that showed me a clip of a woman getting her head blown to pieces. Trust me, I didn’t know what was coming. SMH.

    Again, my heart cries out for this poor young man and his family. God bless them.

  • CreatorGoddess

    Lois Lane!

    Thank you for saying all that my heart cannot right now. I have type 2 bi-polar and have a couple of psych hospitalizations during my journey and I refuse traditional medication as a personal choice because I have found that having mental illness AND the effects of medication were too much for ME..I am not advocating that for others but its my lot ..but NO ONE can understand unless you have been in what I call “the belly of the beast” of wanting to end your life because the pain is that deep…It like ALL things is a choice

    Abraham, You Chose, I Respect That,,I sincerely hope you find the peace you sought and your death serves as wake up call and can save others!

    R

  • WordtotheWise

    This young man was 19 years old and could not be MADE to do anything he didn’t want to do. People keep saying his family, friend, whomever should’ve MADE him get evaluated, take meds, etc. No one can MAKE you do anything you don’t want to do. People were putting J Hud on blast for not MAKING her mom move. Once you are an adult, you have free will.

  • Razzell Dazzell

    If anyone is experiencing similiar problems, please seek help. (If you know of someone, please get them help). There is always hope and help just a second away. I feel for this family, I feel for the young man. So sad, so sad.

  • YOU CANT TELL ME……

    FIRST OF ALL TO LET U KNOW, A PERSON CAN BE MAAAAADE TO GET CARE IF THEY ARE NOTED TO BE A POSSIBLE THREAT IN CAUSING HARM TO EITHER SELF OR OTHERS RELATED TO MENTAL DISORDERS,THEY LOSE ALL RIGHTS ON DECISIONS OF THEIR MEDICAL CARE AND THEY PICK UP A LEGAL GUARDIAN WHO COLLABORATES WITH THEIR DR. ON MAKING THE BEST DECISIONS FOR THAT INDIVUDUAL TO ARRIVE AT THE BEST THERAPEUTIC OUTCOME.

  • Sad

    Lois Lane Thank you… In someways I can understand what he was going through. Sometimes your family and friends will never know how you feel unless you show them or cry out to them. Even when you do if they have never been in your situation they will tell you that its not that bad because they don’t understand how you feel inside.. Depression is like somesome one constantly screaming in your head and you can never get away or even really fight it because its in your head. When all options have failed and your are having a horrible low.. sometimes people take that hard way out. I pray for his family because I know how he feels…

  • Real Mutha Fo Ya

    God Bless this family, but the viewers are hardly to blame. If a poster said he was going to commmit suicide on this blog, I am certain there will be those that will dare him to finish the job, no really believing that he will. The time for intervention was prior to the event. if he suffered from Bi-polar and/or manic depressive conditions, his support system (doctors, pysch, therapists, etc) were in the best position to prevent the occurence. WARNING: If you are about to commit suicide and just need someone to tell you NO DON’T DO IT! DO NOT COME ONTO AN INTERNET BLOG OR YOU WILL SURELY DIE.

  • Hunh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Sad

    Lois Lane Thank you… In someways I can understand what he was going through. Sometimes your family and friends will never know how you feel unless you show them or cry out to them. Even when you do if they have never been in your situation they will tell you that its not that bad because they don’t understand how you feel inside.. Depression is like somesome one constantly screaming in your head and you can never get away or even really fight it because its in your head. When all options have failed and your are having a horrible low.. sometimes people take that hard way out. I pray for his family because I know how he feels…

    ———————————————–

    co-sign 100%

    I’ve also heard from psychologist that in some cases, when a person has decided they are actually going to go through with it, they actually appear to be happy. They’ve reconciled with there decision and have been able to rationalize “suicide” as an option to end the pain without consulting the people around them. While the people around them, see them as appearing to have changed for the better.

  • http://comcast d.

    Life is to be lived… Lets Get It In Black People!!!!!!!!!!!

  • WordtotheWise

    @YOU CANT TELL ME……Duh, I know that. A friend of mine is bi-polar and did not, repeat did not, want to take her meds. No one could MAKE her do it. Obviously if someone is a threat to themselves and others, it’s time for someone to step in. That’s not what I was talking about. Get it?

  • Super_fly_honey

    I feel for him I really do but that was crazy to put in online. The problem is you don’t know exactly who is watching. The internet varies from criminals, to weirdos, to good people, to people who are just looking for a show. I wouldn’t have watched it. I wouldn’t have known what to do. I probably would’ve tried to notify the website owners but thats about it. Those people didn’t know what to do so it’s not their fault. The ppl that were egging him on were some of the fault but from the looks of it he had his mind set to kill himself and that’s what he did. So it’s really no one’s falut, it’s just what he wanted to do.

  • Opie Taylor

    I’m just glad he wasn’t white. That would be truly tragic. A suicidal black drug addicted college student (probably) by way of some affirmative action quota system is no big loss. Just chalk it up to CULLING THE HERD.

  • Dizzy McElroy

    Tragic

  • YOU CANT TELL ME……

    @ WORDTOTHEWISE

    YEAH, AND IF U DON’T TAKE YOUR MEDS WHICH ARE YOUR REGULATORS, IT CAN RISK THAT PERSON GOIN INTO ERRATIC BEHAVIOR THAT CAN LEADING UP TO SUICIDE. THEREFORE YOU CAN STEP IN IF THERE NON-COMPLIANT WITH THEIR MEDICATION THERAPY

  • Pynk (KICK ROCKS WITH THE KICKS YOU ROCK)

    This is the worst thing ever

  • Slim

    @LoisLane- Well said. Perfect.

  • deesac

    First of all I wish the family well in there trouble times but anyway I this week have went to court for divorce my wife was cheating on me turn the kids on my I lost everything I had and recently my job pay has been cut in have from the economy plus the judge gave me a child support payment so high there no way in the world I going to be able to pay and said by the first if I don’t pay it he will throw me in jail WoW like I’m the one at falk but there no way that I’m going to give up my point is there know reason what so every to take your life

  • SELENA

    I really feel sorry for this poor child. I wish he could have got the help he deserved.

  • Flame Extinguisher

    @ Hunh!!!!!

    YOU are the dumb Fcuk. This guy was gay as the day is long. His sexuality was the cause of some of his problems. Why would he make a cry for help on a body building website? That’s just odd (unless you consider that he would have to like to have been rescued by a group that he so admired). I know this is complicated shiiit for you negro, but accept it. YOU DO NOT KNOW EVERYTHING, with your simple @ss. It’s clear this young man was gay. He needed help. Simple @ss Nigras like yourself is part of the reason he took his life. You are a dumb fcuk. Go back to your security job, loser.

  • jojo

    So sad the pain this young man must have been in.

  • g.

    tragic

  • Aries Chica

    Wow this reminds me of that movie that came out a year ago where the people online ha to keep the people alive while they got tortured.

    I have been affected by suicide in my family and friend. A large population of black men are dying from this too. Just sad.

    All I can say is DON’T OVER LOOK THE SIGNS!!!

  • rogger

    who cares about another monkey offing its self he it is responsible for its life he it took its life and left

  • chillblains

    An hero!

  • Schquick

    Congratulations to Abe for ending the pain.

  • Redd Tony aka Earth Sign “If everyone is thinking alike, nobody is really thinking”

    SMH…

  • Redd Tony aka Earth Sign “If everyone is thinking alike, nobody is really thinking”

    SMH…………

  • Everything happens for a reason

    I would have did all I could to try to help cause how can you live with your self after doing nothing? It’s pointless to even go at the people who just stood by cause they are the lowest of the low clearly!

    R.I.P. Abraham Biggs

  • some of you people sicken me ugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    at the couple of messages over mine! including monica talking bout he going to hell why don’t you go there right now idiot!

  • Just Sit and Be Pretty

    Sad!!

  • BE

    I think this is sad…please listen to your children no matter how old they are, they go through alot in this world

  • kai

    You all have a lot of contradictory things to say. One person says “if a person wants to die, they will not announce it.” Clearly this person announced it AND did it. The other side of it was that the people egging him on do not have the balls to even relate to committing suicide themselves, and that would be why they are egging him on. I dont know why you are suprised to see people not reacting to the webcam by calling help immediately-doesnt surprise me. People are killing gays, parents, family and especially one another for money. Its just the way of the world.

  • Strawberries

    It must be really hard for his family right now. To know that your loved one took their own life and there were people watching and even encouraging him.

    I must say though there were also people discouraging him. This is a tragedy indeed but no one is to blame except the young man who took those pills. I understand the family may be disgusted by the folks who didn’t take him seriously, but to blame them and the website for the misfortune is reaching at best. They knew he was sick but not the people watching the webcam.

  • JOEY B

    @Kai–>>> get’em………..get’em………..GET’EM!

  • Tiffany

    I live in Miami, and this guy is actually the son of a math professor I had at Broward College. I dropped his class this fall because he was too challenging. Anyway, this is very sad, and we need to be implementing better policies, rules, and regulations over internet situations like this. This is not the first time this has happened, and it won’t be the last if nothing is done. Those who egged him on to do this should be punished some way some how. This is just wrong.

  • DEJA

    To: LOISLANE

    …obviously his family HAD sought help for him and he was probably under the care of a psychiatrist who had prescribed the medication.

    ^^ this bish think she know everything. people who get drug therapy for mental illness are not “under” the care of a physician. they are seen, diagnosed, then given a script, the doctor makes an appointment to see if the drug has had any adverse affects and if the dosage needs to be modified. if everything is fine they are sent on their merry little way without having to see the doctor for the next 6 or maybe even more months OR unless the patient suffers a set back. so please dont think you know it all lois and ASSUME he was getting the type of therapy he needed just because he had a script. now days you can be in a physicians office all of 5 min before they start writing on their Rx pad .. there are even some that will let you request drugs by name. in the day of patient overloads, parents busy with obligations and an overwhelming complacency and faith in prescription pills his family probably did assume, well he’s on meds, let them do the work of reigning him in. so F you and you condescension thinking that other people’s comments/opinions arent valid and what you say is just because they’re the developement of your feable thinking.

  • Rosa

    I heard that she appeared on a dating community ☆☆☆INTERRACIALLOVING.COM☆☆☆ with a personal account there. Maybe you have the chance to talk to her online or meet some singles there. It is amazing.

  • Sistah_PhD2be

    @Flame Extinguisher

    I agree with you 100%!!!! Although I may not know too much about living in the life and things of that nature; I do however recall various scenes in a movie which speaks directly to your comments.

    If you have ever seen the movie “Irreversible”, you will see that you were quite accurate in your comments regarding white homosexuals.

    Thanks for your post.

    To Abraham,

    We live our lives and past lives in sifting through our karmic retrubution. You will have the chance to revisit this plane once again and will live your best life without becoming unhinged.

    May your changing states be one that is not only soul balancing, but one that gives you the strength to move forward to soar proudly and graciously throughout the spirit world. Remain steadfast and mindful that “Energy is never lost, only transferred”

    Deepest sympathy and encouragement to his family.

  • TRACI

    i read about this on yahoo! but there wasnt a pic of him…this is sad….whatever he was going through he must’ve felt like there was no way out for him…

  • Hunh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Flame Extinguisher

    YOU are the dumb Fcuk. This guy was gay as the day is long. His sexuality was the cause of some of his problems. Why would he make a cry for help on a body building website? That’s just odd (unless you consider that he would have to like to have been rescued by a group that he so admired). I know this is complicated shiiit for you negro, but accept it. YOU DO NOT KNOW EVERYTHING, with your simple @ss. It’s clear this young man was gay. He needed help. Simple @ss Nigras like yourself is part of the reason he took his life. You are a dumb fcuk. Go back to your security job, loser.

    ————————————————

    I must apologize, I seem to have upset you, LMAO !

    Once again you have “completely failed” to “fully” comprehend the scope of what was set before you.

    Considering my response to what you wrote previously, if the idiom “Ignorance is bliss” were in fact deemed to be a concrete truth, you my friend must be living in a constant state of EUPHORIA.

  • ARTOFWAR

    To the first person that said sticks, and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me, (well that person was an idiot.)

    0ften times, it is the harsh words of others, that hurt us the deepest.

    People!!!

    WE have to understand that we all came from common ancestory, no matter what

    color, creed, or religion, we happen to be now.

    WE are all brothers, and sisters, whether we like it, or not.

    And I myself, am guilty of saying insensitive things to others, because I know that emotionally I am strong enough to take, what I dish out. And not miss a stide, in my step.

    However, we must understand, and take into account that there are many people in this world, especially in these financially diffucLt times, that do not have that thick skin, that the rest of us may have.

    Therefore, we as a collective humankind, have to take this into account, not everyone is mentally solid, right now.

    Abraham Biggs, is just one of many individuaLs, that are borderline, and very subjective, to negative critcism.

    But Abraham was our collective brother as a human.

    And some of us yet urged him to kill himself.

    And then for seven hours watched him die.

    The question should not be posed about Abraham, he was abviously in need of help.

    But here is the real uncomfortable question, for those of us that watched this person die, in front of our very eyes, and did nothing.

    The real question that should be posed is.

    WHO was most sick, Abraham for killing himself. Or those of us that let it happen?

    R.I.P Abraham.

    I hope that if there is another existance beyond the bonds of the living, and breathing world.

    It is a much more compasionate, realm, than the one we living, still dwell in…… ARTOWAR.

  • Doe

    Guys a Nooooob plain and simple, ungrateful the way i see it there people in this world that cant even acsess the net. i feel more sorry for them

  • ARTOFWAR

    @ Hunh!!!!!!!! With all due respect.

    I first started producing plays, in my parents basement back in Detroit, when I was only nine years of age.

    Now I am a Hollywood scripwriter,producer, and director.

    Living in South Beach, Miami.

    UNLESS you have been living under a rock, for the last 15 years. I am sure you have seen some of my work.

    As a writer. ALLOW me to Let you in, on a Little secret.

    Art, no matter how fictional, aLways imitates real Life.

    The trick is to morph, and weave from fiction, metapohors that occur into everyday realities.

    Fore without real Life, we as artists, would have no material from which to draw from.

    Therefore no art, therefore no life ……. ARTOFWAR.

  • Mock Rock Star

    ARTOFWAR

    @ Hunh!!!!!!!! With all due respect.

    I first started producing plays, in my parents basement back in Detroit, when I was only nine years of age.

    Now I am a Hollywood scripwriter,producer, and director.

    Living in South Beach, Miami.

    UNLESS you have been living under a rock, for the last 15 years. I am sure you have seen some of my work.

    As a writer. ALLOW me to Let you in, on a Little secret.

    Art, no matter how fictional, aLways imitates real Life.

    The trick is to morph, and weave from fiction, metapohors that occur into everyday realities.

    Fore without real Life, we as artists, would have no material from which to draw from.

    Therefore no art, therefore no life ……. ARTOFWAR.

    ———————————–

    As close to 100% cosign as I can get…

    People tend to believe what they see and hear

  • Just Me

    Listen, in MOST cases, when people are trying to kill themselves, they don’t announce it to the world. This was a cry for help. He dared someone to step in, and no one did anything for 7 hours. I am by no means blaming anyone. This young man was diagnosed with a mental illness and did not think or rationalize like a “normal” person.

  • Creole Baby Justa Snare & a 808

    my oh my

  • Just me

    He wanted attention and he got it. They shouldn’t blame other ppl for what he did. It sucks that he died but ppl fool around on the internet all the time. Ppl should take a look at themselves be they start blaming other ppl.

  • Sistah_PhD2be

    @ARTOFWAR

    As a writer. ALLOW me to Let you in, on a Little secret.

    Art, no matter how fictional, aLways imitates real Life.

    The trick is to morph, and weave from fiction, metapohors that occur into everyday realities.

    _________________________________________________

    Cosign! ^5 to you

  • Flame Extinguisher

    @ Hunh!!!!

    Dude, you are a complete idiot who is trying to verify themselves on this board. I won’t argue with you as you have the mind of a 8 year old. You can’t be reasoned with; you’re a complete idiot. You and your kind are the reason the black race is in dire straights right now. Go straight to HE^^. Do Not pass go, do not collect $200.

  • Wizdumb

    The pain his mother must be feeling knowing that her baby was hurting and ppl just sat and watched as he took his last breath….my heart and my prayers go to her and his entire family.

  • Lovin’ lyfe

    I am just amazed at some of the racist/sexist and just plain uneducated comments on here.

    Unfortumately for whatever reason a fellow human being took his own life. Where is the love?? This was someones son,someones brother & someones friend. My heart aches for all those will miss him.

    My heart breaks for all those who won’t. We need to wake up people and try to help each other.

  • Lovin’ lyfe

    Oh yes, and for those of you that sit in judgement of a young man you have never even met…..Your day is coming, so get ready to be judged yourselves!

  • Lovin’ lyfe

    @doe

    you feel more sorry for people that don’t have internet access than a mentally ill person struggling???????…I am going to go pray for you now…I won’t tell you what I am going to pray for , because i’m sure it would hurt your feelings. I will just say I hope you find some useful direction in your life and learn to love others.

  • We “Blacks” Are The Real Hebrew Israelites

    That is so disturbing and sad. I hope God is giving him the rest that he needs. Depression and mental illness is not a joke, people. Poor poor kid.

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