If this is how people behave (egging on someone to kill themselves) under fairly orderly conditions, imagine what we are capable of when the crime and slumming of suburbia is underway (a consequence of Peak Oil based recession).
People don't realise the difference between movie death, tv death, internet death and death-in-the-real-world. As far as they are concerned this is a reality show with no implications.
When you've had someone close to you die (as I have), you realise the death of one person is a really big deal. There are days and days of tears, months and years of loss, there is a funeral, a coffin, there are speeches and family that travel from far to pay their respects.
Of course, the easiest way to empathise with someone who is dead, dying or contemplating death is to imagine what it is like to not exist. And the act of actually squeezing the life force out of oneself. This is sad.
MIAMI – 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.
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clipped from news.yahoo.com
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