There is growing outrage after a Florida teenager, suffering from bipolar disorder, took his own life live on the internet.
More than 1000 people watched for 12 hours as Abraham Biggs succumbed to medication he had taken.
A memorial to Biggs has been posted on MySpace, with pictures and videos of the 19-year-old Broward College student in happier times.
"On a normal day you really couldn't tell that he got as low as he did, but that's the nature of bipolarism," says Rosalind Biggs, his sister.
Concealed is a darker side to a Florida teen who committed suicide live on the internet Wednesday.
"I find it, you know, very sad that people sit back at home and watch something like that and not call some help for him," says his father, "and he was crying out for help, and I wasn't home to help him."
Viewers logged on to justin.tv and bodybuilding.com watched as Biggs swallowed a combination of pills. Some egged him on. Others accused him of faking it. After he lay motionless for hours, a concerned viewer alerted website monitors who then called police.
This is not the first internet broadcast of a suicide. But the drawn-out drama and the reaction of those watching is yet another example of the internet's safety in anonymity and voyeuristic appeal.
"The internet is crazy," says Parry Aftab, executive director of Wired Safety.
"You get mob behaviour much faster, people who would say things they'd never say if someone knew who they were or they thought someone knew who they were and they say things they only think about but never say out loud."
According to Aftab, these sites are not legally responsible for the content of the webcast. But she says, there is a moral responsibility.
"People need to know that they should be responsible for their fellow man," she says. "If you see something like this...even if it might be a prank, report it to the site."
In this case, the online world may have allowed viewers to escape the responsibility of the real world.
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