The sad story of Abraham Biggs, the Pembroke Pines teen who commited suicide live on webcam, just broke locally, but details began emerging from various Internet sources late yesterday afternoon. Valleywag reports that Biggs was a regular user of Justin.tv, a lifecasting site, often transmitting the scenes from his life online, up until the final one. Most of the people who watched Biggs that night did so because they knew he planned on committing suicide by ODing on pills; some even left comme
You may have heard the shocking tale of Abraham Biggs, the 19-year old Broward College student who aired his own suicide via webcam in November. A tragedy, certainly. But this is the first online suicide we've heard of -- not exactly a pandemic. Which makes the front-page headline on this week's issue of local black paper The Miami Times somewhat inexplicable: No reference was made in the article as to how, exactly, this teen's death constitutes a "rising threat." We're thinking this is the
