Viewers could have saved teen as they watched him die online

This is to all the people who watched this teenager die.

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU? What would it have cost you if you contacted the police to let them know what you were seeing even if he was faking? Would it have cost you anything at all? What's wrong? Were you afraid some of the other people on line would have made fun of you if you were wrong but reacted as any decent, normal human being would have? The medical examiner said that if someone had picked up a phone and reported it, his life could have been saved but all of you just watched him die debating if he took enough pills or if he really did want to die. How horrible are you? Do you feel any shame? Remorse?

Is it because he's a stranger? Well I have news for you. So is everyone else you're online with.

I spend my days trying to save the lives of people who want to die because they have lost hope. They are all strangers but they are people who need help and then I go into CNN to see this! There is no excuse for any of you that would ever make this right. The difference between me and you is that I can go to bed at night knowing I did what I could everyday to make a difference in a stranger's life but you get to go to bed knowing someone took their own life while you watched and did nothing.

Officials: Teen commits suicide on webcam as others watch
Story Highlights
Some urged him to take more drugs; others debated whether he had used enough
Hours passed before someone notified authorities, officials say
Teen had a history of depression; posted suicide note online
Dad laments that no one gave him "the assistance that he was crying out for"

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- With his webcam trained on him, a Florida teenager died in his bed of a drug overdose while others watched over the Internet, officials said Friday.

Broward County Medical Examiner Joshua Perper said it was clear that the teen committed suicide.

Some of those watching urged him to take more drugs while others debated whether he had taken enough to kill himself. Hours passed before someone finally notified authorities that he appeared lifeless, officials said.

The teenager was pronounced dead Wednesday afternoon in Pembroke Pines, Florida, said Wendy Crane, investigator for the Broward County Medical Examiner's Office.

The cause of death was found to be an overdose of benzodiazepine, an antidepressant, as well as other opiate drugs used to treat depression, Crane said. CNN is not reporting the teenager's name.

The youth's body was found in his apartment behind a locked door, which police broke down. Police turned off the webcam and computer, Crane said.

Watch CNN's John Zarrella detail the webcam suicide »

The story
With his webcam trained on him, a Florida teenager died in his bed of a drug overdose while others watched over the Internet, officials said Friday.

Some of those watching urged him to take more drugs while others debated whether he had taken enough to kill himself. Hours passed before someone finally notified authorities that he appeared lifeless, officials said.

The teenager was pronounced dead Wednesday afternoon in Pembroke Pines, Florida, said Wendy Crane, investigator for the Broward County Medical Examiner's Office.

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UPDATE ON THIS STORY
Teen Commits Suicide Live on Web

By RASHA MADKOUR, AP
Nov. 22) -The family of a college student who killed himself live on the Internet say they're horrified his life ended before a virtual audience, and infuriated that viewers of the live webcam or operators of the Web site that hosted it didn't act sooner to save him.

Only after police arrived to find Abraham Biggs dead in his father's bed did the Web feed stop Wednesday — 12 hours after the 19-year-old Broward College student first declared on a Web site that he hated himself and planned to die.

"It didn't have to be," said the victim's sister, Rosalind Bigg. "They got hits, they got viewers, nothing happened for hours."

Biggs announced his plans to kill himself over a Web site for bodybuilders, authorities said. He posted a link from there to Justin.tv, a site that allows users to broadcast live videos from their webcams.
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