Abraham Biggs, aka Candyjunkie, Kills Self Online
A lot of the news stories are downplaying the selfishness of Biggs’ final act, saying he was a confused teenager, while at the same time, decrying the words of the people in the online streaming video chatroom as heinous because some of them jeered and even egged him on to commit suicide. Below is a screencap of the chat room as the cops went into the home of Biggs to check on him due to a tip from one of the site’s visitors.
A complete timeline of what happened is at the Internet drama site (look, this link goes to a site that discusses suicide and has graphic images, so don’t click it and then act all traumatized) ED here.
The medical examiner’s office conducted an autopsy Thursday and determined Biggs died from a drug overdose. The toxicology report indicated he had ingested a deadly combination of benzodiazepine, a depressant used to treat insomnia, and opiates. He had a prescription for some of the drugs, but not all.
Biggs Jr. wrote what appeared to be a suicide note and posted it on his MySpace page Nov. 13:
”I can honestly say I’ve finally closed a chapter in my life that tonight that ended a long time ago. For my closest friends, you know who exactly I’m talking about, but I guess it really does take that last kiss goodbye till you finally turn your back on someone and not even think of looking back,” Biggs wrote.
“Good Night Myspacer [sic], I think I’m gonna go in at only 1:29 AM.”
The paper reports the story as if Biggs was a teenager. He was 19, so he was a man. And he knew what he was doing. And he was being a bit of a drama queen about his whole “shuffling off the mortal coil” and all. Reports say he had attempted suicide before and talked of it often. My sympathy goes to his family for their tragic loss.
But as tragic as his death was, I am claiming Abraham Biggs’ unused carbon credits. I called dibs, so I get them under salvage laws of this country. And don’t you start booing me for being a heartless bastard- I’m just thinking like a liberal. This guy is carbon neutral now, thank Gaea, and will spew no more awful CO2 into the atmosphere. But he had a good 60 years worth of living ahead of him, and that’s a lot of unspent carbon.
“But Pat,” you say, “the guy is not even in the ground yet! How can you say these things?” Hey, it’s not my fault the guy’s life was unsustainable. Maybe he didn’t believe that Obama was going to bring him any hope OR change. Or maybe he was dejected because he didn’t get a Congressional bailout package like AIG. But if you really feel sorry for Biggs, you can leave your condolences on his Myspace Page here.
I hope that the people that you love the most in this world kill themselves.