suicide on bodybuilding forum...

@treebee Said

attention whoring to extremes IMO

Yeah its wrong that people should goad someone who claims to be suicidal. But its f***ed up on both sides.

Seriously if people are getting that into the net where they actually kill themselves because online people don't believe them then they shouldnt even be using the net for interaction.

I think that sometimes there are a certain type of people who just choose to listen to the destructive s***. For example you get people who go on and on and on about thier partner being a s***ty partner and how he/she takes money, beats them up, is horrible to the kids and 200 people will go "leave them, get out of the situation" and one person will go "well, you probably asked for it" and they will then engage with the troll for ages and ages because they would rather interact negatively than listen to all the people who are trying to be nice and positive.

I cant say this is exclusive to the net, in real life people will go on about killing themselves and in the end people get so f***ed off they say "yeah, well go do it" and just when they think its for attention the silly bugger goes ahead and does it.

I cant blame the medium and i cant say its entirely the fault of the pack who goad them on, its entirely down to short sightedness, need for attention and lack of social support.

@ultranewbie Said


Eventually the man set up a live streaming webcam on JustinTV, and proceeded to swallow pills. The scene ended with him prone on his bed.

@ultranewbie Said

Bodybuilding.com’s notoriously unmoderated MISC forum taunted a 19 year old member, Abraham K. Biggs (aka CandyJunkie and Mr. Biggs), to commit suicide via webcam.

The taunting began when the 19 year old remarked on the forum that he was considering suicide. Forum members began encouraging him, pushing for him to kill himself.

Eventually the man set up a live streaming webcam on JustinTV, and proceeded to swallow pills. The scene ended with him prone on his bed.

It has also been reported that forums members began deleting their posts after the severity of the incident set in.


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I personally was a member on this forum - i never posted often due to pretty harsh environment there.. What was worse? the kid laid there on the bed for 7 hours before police found him.

The BB.com admin. tried to write a letter stating that the members were justified in their actions because the kid came on there before. True, he did, but regardless of how many times he did - you just don't "egg them on" let alone, after the deed is done, would you sit there and watch him die without lifting a finger - other than to "delete your posts"..

Yesterday, i posted just to see if things changed - no they haven't. To be honest, it's gotten worse.. thank gawd i was able to put in a few choice words and demanded they ban me..

@GiantSpiderGoat Said

This reminds me of the time I saw a news report on the tv that told the story of a boy who jumped off a building killing himself, while fellow students who had been one of the causes stood and told him to jump while they were watching him. They then had the balls to say that had no part in it. Which is kinda f***ed up. I hope that those people who did that got the hell beaten out of them.