Abraham Biggs' Suicide: Police Report

From The Smoking Gun:

Hours before broadcasting his suicide live via a webcam, a Florida man sent his mother a text message noting that, "It's not even life is boring, I actually loath my life," according to a police report. Abraham Biggs sent his mother the message at 4:18 AM last Wednesday, hours before the 19-year-old college student killed himself with a drug overdose. Biggs's mother told police that she called her son immediately after receiving the text, but that he "insisted that he was neither depressed nor suicidal and that he planned on going to work with his father." The Pembroke Pines Police Department report, a copy of which you'll find below, notes that a police dispatcher initially advised cops that Biggs "appeared to be down in front of his web cam." Police were reportedly contacted by web cam viewers concerned for Biggs's safety. When a quartet of cops broke into Biggs's locked bedroom, they discovered him dead on the bed. A suicide note was atop his computer keyboard. "It should be noted that both computer screens were on and a web cam was facing the bed and it appeared that he may have broadcast his death on the Internet," police reported. On one of the computer screens were instant messages to an unknown recipient reporting that Biggs had ingested eight Xanax pills, roofies, and Lexapro, an antidepressant. "On the other screen was live chat with [unknown] persons discussing the situation that had just occurred in the deceased's bedroom," according to the report. Biggs's mother Doreen told officers that her son had a long history of depression and tried to commit suicide in September. She also recalled that her son, who suffered from asthma, once "bought a large amount of cigarettes hoping that if he smoked them all it would suffocate him and he would die."

Sadly, Abraham Biggs had a long history of depression. According to his mother, he attempted suicide in September.

I have absolutely no sympathy for those loathesome creatures trolling the Internet, harassing people under the supposed veil of anonymity.

Some viewers of Biggs' streamed suicide made despicable comments:

"People were egging him on and saying things like 'go ahead and do it, faggot,' said Wendy Crane, an investigator at the Broward County Medical Examiner's office.

...On a blog where Biggs wrote about his suicidal thoughts, which has since been removed, commenters wrote, "hahaha hahahahha hahahahahah ahhaha." Wired reported that someone else wrote: "Instant Darwinism ..." to which a fellow commenter wrote: "f**king a nicely put." Others called the teen a "coward," "faggot" and a "dick."

These are the words of horrible, horrible people.

I don't understand how people can check their consciences at the cyber-door when they enter the world of the Internet.

But the tragic fact is Abraham Biggs suffered from severe depression. These ugly people can't be blamed for Biggs making the decision to kill himself or inviting others to watch him die.

However, they do have to carry around with them for the rest of their lives the knowledge that through their cruelty they added to the misery of Abraham Biggs' last moments of life.

I doubt that they care. These jerks are soulless.
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