Father Devastated After Son's Web Cam Suicide

Father Devastated After Son's Web Cam Suicide

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Earlier this week 19-year-old Abraham Biggs turned on his streaming web-cam, took some pills and never woke up.

Abraham broadcast his suicide live on the Web while online users chatted and cracked jokes while they watch the troubled teenager slowly die.

On Saturday, Abraham's father spoke out for the first time, saying he was appalled by the virtual audience that stood by and did nothing to help his son. "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."

Now his father is calling for some kind of regulation so something like this cannot happen again.

A friend left a message on Abraham's Myspace page saying, "I still wish this was all a joke".

Funeral arrangements are not known and police had no new information on the case.

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” would have done the following. Ping the friggin URL and get the static IP address to the site. Look up the static IP address and see who owns it” - Sorry but the site publishing the feed doesnt know who it is either. You then have to track the ISP who has to watch it and decide and then go into a DB look up the DHCP Assignment for the IP Address look up the account who has it ooops 54 hrs has past they are still dead. Stop trying to push blame back onto anyone on the internet. The blame goes back to his friends, family, and loved ones who should have noticed a change in his personality. It is not my fault nor my job to police the internet. This cryout that you should have called someone is beyond uncomprehension who do you call? Sorry Myspace isnt your ISP and has no control of what you do. Beyond the fact that this was a cry for attention that went to far. Look if you want to kill youself go ahead, The idea you need to get up and broadcast this to a countless set of individuals is just that you wanted an audience you wanted the attention. Its a shame this was real and its a shame it ended as it did. However the responsibility go back to his friend family and loved ones who should have known there was a problem instead of dismissing it as just a bi-polar moment.

- Anonymous

Posted 11/23/08 09:39 PM

“Families need society’s help, in a noninvasive way.” If you need society’s help to keep your kids from killing themselves, you shouldn’t be having kids. Society should provide safe streets, a healthy environment, and public education. Everything else is your responsibility.

- Mike

Posted 11/24/08 12:37 AM

I read an article once about a young woman in the far east who was online and having a heart attack or stroke. She asked her chat friends for help and nobody responded. Then one man decided to take a chance, and from across the world he helped find this girl who was in terrible trouble, he was in time and saved her life. You don’t have to be a cold callus jerk just because you think you are anonymous.

- Laura

Posted 11/24/08 03:02 PM

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