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A Florida teenager committed suicide before a live webcam audience after posting messages online about his plan to kill himself, an official told FOXNews.com on Friday.

Abraham Biggs Jr., 19, of Pembroke Pines, Fla., died Wednesday, said Wendy Crane, an investigator with the Broward County medical examiner's office.

"He was blogging between 3 and 4 a.m. on the 19th, Wednesday, at which time he inserted a link in the blog to a live webcam and posted a suicide note, and then was seen lying down on the bed," Crane told FOXNews.com.

Bloggers then spent the next 12 hours trying to figure out whether to call authorities, Crane said. Biggs was dead when Pembroke Pines police officers arrived at about 3:30 p.m.

"Throughout the day, the bloggers were going back and forth: 'He doesn’t look like he’s breathing'; 'Should we call the police?'; 'Well, where is he?'; 'We don’t know,'" Crane said.

"Finally, somebody notified a monitor, who got his information from the sign-up, and then they contacted the local authorities."

A spokesman for the Pembroke Pines police department declined to comment on the case, citing department policy on suicides. But he acknowledged that an investigation into the delay in notifying authorities was "possible."

Crane told FOXNews.com that Biggs' death was ruled a suicide from combined drug toxicity. His system contained the depressant benzodiazepine as well as opiates.

A message posted to his final MySpace blog by his mother Friday mentioned a history of mental illness.

"Please do not feel sorry for us, we lost a beautiful but troubled soul. Instead, please use that energy to 'see' with your heart," the message said. "Mental illnesses, like depression and bipolar disease, are not temporary situations. It is something that victims live with and battle with privately."

Investigators won't know for several weeks, when blood toxicology test results are available, whether Biggs also ingested other drugs, Crane said.

The site that posted the Web video, Justin.tv, issued a blog post entitled "A Moment of Silence" on Thursday to acknowledge the death.

"We regret that this has occurred and want to respect the privacy of the broadcaster and his family during this time," Michael Seibel, the CEO of the site, said in a statement issued to FOXNews.com.

Messages from friends expressing their disbelief were posted on Biggs' MySpace page.

"i know your still livinq your life after death i miss you so much im so hurt by this," wrote one. "you was the coolest person ever i just dont know you would do this! man everybody is so hurt its so crazy."

Another said: "i miss you already. i keep falling asleep and waking up hoping this would all go away....."

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I've lost two people to suicide, and I could never imagine sitting and watching someone do it. People make me sick. In other articles I read on this kid, people were sitting there debating if the pills he took were actually lethal.

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A Florida teenager committed suicide before a live webcam audience after posting messages online about his plan to kill himself, an official told FOXNews.com on Friday.

Abraham Biggs Jr., 19, of Pembroke Pines, Fla., died Wednesday, said Wendy Crane, an investigator with the Broward County medical examiner's office.

"He was blogging between 3 and 4 a.m. on the 19th, Wednesday, at which time he inserted a link in the blog to a live webcam and posted a suicide note, and then was seen lying down on the bed," Crane told FOXNews.com.

Bloggers then spent the next 12 hours trying to figure out whether to call authorities, Crane said. Biggs was dead when Pembroke Pines police officers arrived at about 3:30 p.m.

"Throughout the day, the bloggers were going back and forth: 'He doesn’t look like he’s breathing'; 'Should we call the police?'; 'Well, where is he?'; 'We don’t know,'" Crane said.

"Finally, somebody notified a monitor, who got his information from the sign-up, and then they contacted the local authorities."

A spokesman for the Pembroke Pines police department declined to comment on the case, citing department policy on suicides. But he acknowledged that an investigation into the delay in notifying authorities was "possible."

Crane told FOXNews.com that Biggs' death was ruled a suicide from combined drug toxicity. His system contained the depressant benzodiazepine as well as opiates.

A message posted to his final MySpace blog by his mother Friday mentioned a history of mental illness.

"Please do not feel sorry for us, we lost a beautiful but troubled soul. Instead, please use that energy to 'see' with your heart," the message said. "Mental illnesses, like depression and bipolar disease, are not temporary situations. It is something that victims live with and battle with privately."

Investigators won't know for several weeks, when blood toxicology test results are available, whether Biggs also ingested other drugs, Crane said.

The site that posted the Web video, Justin.tv, issued a blog post entitled "A Moment of Silence" on Thursday to acknowledge the death.

"We regret that this has occurred and want to respect the privacy of the broadcaster and his family during this time," Michael Seibel, the CEO of the site, said in a statement issued to FOXNews.com.

Messages from friends expressing their disbelief were posted on Biggs' MySpace page.

"i know your still livinq your life after death i miss you so much im so hurt by this," wrote one. "you was the coolest person ever i just dont know you would do this! man everybody is so hurt its so crazy."

Another said: "i miss you already. i keep falling asleep and waking up hoping this would all go away....."

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I've lost two people to suicide, and I could never imagine sitting and watching someone do it. People make me sick. In other articles I read on this kid, people were sitting there debating if the pills he took were actually lethal.

Papers are wrong benzodiazepine is a drug class not an actual drug. The drugs that fit in this class are like valium, xanax, klonopin, ristoral, and ativan. I take benzos and opiates at the same time and I dont die he must have taken a lethal dose. Why broadcast it IDK thats just fucking weird.

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Papers are wrong benzodiazepine is a drug class not an actual drug. The drugs that fit in this class are like valium, xanax, klonopin, ristoral, and ativan. I take benzos and opiates at the same time and I dont die he must have taken a lethal dose. Why broadcast it IDK thats just fucking weird.

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All which are used as anti depressants...they just didn't list the actually drug. And he died because he did take a lethal dose since you know he told people he was going to kill himself.

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If his suicide note is credible, and we pretty much have to assume that it is, the young man was obviously suffering from severe depression. If he were making at least a semi-rational choice to suicide himself, it might be a different story. As it was, he needed help, and it is tragic, if in the quotidian, everyday, Arthur Miller sort of way, that he felt he didn't have any alternative, or that this was the best one.

Far more disturbing to me, however, is the fact that many of the insipid internet denizens watching him were actually encouraging him to do it. Now, I'll be the first to admit that airing your suicide attempt on air (a la Budd Dwyer or the lady newscaster in the 70s) is incredibly stupid for a variety of reasons, but the fact that people, that is to say many more than one, actually chose their amusement over the life of another person who was quite obviously not well, chills me to the bone and hardens my misanthropy even further.

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The truely sad part about this is that it took people 12 hours to decide to contact someone... does society have that little regard for human life that no one cares about another human being at this point?

This is an extremely small group of people. Is it fair to label that as "society"?

The fact that it was over a computer screen made it easier for these people to disascociate themselves from it. Stick them in the same room as this person does the same thing happen?

Probably not, but, who knows?

It's unfortunate either way.

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The truely sad part about this is that it took people 12 hours to decide to contact someone... does society have that little regard for human life that no one cares about another human being at this point?

They probably didn't know what to do, what do you do in that situation? They don't know the kid's name, where he lives, anything like that.

The same sort of situation happened to me with an ex who at the time lived in Holly. I was in Hazel Park at the time hanging out with my friend (now boyfriend, Pest, who is and was also friend's with my ex) and my ex calls me, drunk as shit, crying his ass off, and babbling about how he was going to kill himself unless I stopped him or had a reason to convince him not to. I tried my best, but he hung up on me, so I called 911. Low and behold, they couldn't help me, they didn't know how since he lived in Holly and they didn't have the number for the Holly police station. Him and I (Pest and I) were in the car at this point, driving like a bat out of hell, trying to get to Holly as fast as possible (for those who aren't familiar with the area, Holly is a good 45-60 minutes from Hazel Park, and I was lucky I-75 runs right through Hazel Park, if I were at home it would have taken longer). I'm calling my Boshy frantically and I believe that she tried to call the Holly Police Station....and they said they couldn't help! :ohmy: We luckily got there in record time like 30 minutes, and he didn't actually try to kill himself...but I damn near killed him anyways :laugh:.

In a situation where you're miles and miles away from someone, don't know the number for their police station, and in the case of these people, don't even know the person or where they live....what do you do?

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but doesn't any site like this that hosts web shows or whatever have a "report" button to flag a moderator to check it out? that was my point no one put any effort into it for 12 hours i understand the disassociating part i do but how hard is it to report it to a moderator or anything like that

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