Incredibly Disturbing, Sick Behavior.

[DawnCt1]

This is incredibly disgusting. A college student commits suicide on line, in front of a video cam and NO ONE calls for help for 12 hours!!

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081121/D94JIDEG2.html

 

[tevagirl]

I just read about this. How sad.

 

[DawnCt1]

I just read about this. How sad.

His family must be devastated. All of those people logging on and looking the other way. I hope they are haunted for a long time.

 

[eliza61]

For the first time, in a long time I am actually speechless. This is way beyond sad. Makes me extremely sad for the people watching, it says soo much about them.

 

[rcraw45425]

I was just about to post on this Dawn! WHat kind of world are we living in where this could happen and people bet whether he's serious, if he needs to take more drugs, or what?! I'm sickened by this.

 

[DawnCt1]

I was just about to post on this Dawn! WHat kind of world are we living in where this could happen and people bet whether he's serious, if he needs to take more drugs, or what?! I'm sickened by this.

I am totally sickened. This is someone's child for goodness sakes.! Why wasn't there at least one person out of 2000 with a conscience.

 

[rcraw45425]

As a parent (and I know you're one too) this really hit me hard, doing the "what if that had been my child" scenario, I cannot imagine waht those poor parents are going through.

 

[Kay1]

I heard about this. I have a son that age and can't bear to follow the link. It's just awful.

 

[DawnCt1]

As a parent (and I know you're one too) this really hit me hard, doing the "what if that had been my child" scenario, I cannot imagine waht those poor parents are going through.

I think of the teens and young adults that we have known of, that have died in accidents, etc. and there is always that thought, if someone had intervened, they might have survived those critical and difficult years. It must be awful to know that someone, if they had acted, could have saved his life.

 

[disney1990]

Oh my, how sad. As the parent of a college student, this breaks my heart. Even if people didn't think he was serious, they should have still tried to have him located.

 

[soupy11]

I blame the punk'd mentality and the fact that nothing carries any weight for today's youth (of course I am speaking in generalities, but you get the point)

 

[Buckalew11]

I have said this many times here but I have a dear friend who lost her son to suicide several years ago. He hung himself in his dorm room on Homecoming weekend.

He did not do it on webcam (that I know of) but he was on-line and visiting suicide chat rooms where the topic was discussed and people talked to him about ways to do it, what happens to the body as you do it and are dying etc. They were able to go back in his computer and see a lot of stuff and he'd been crying out for help to the wrong people. They egged him on. So sick. So tragic.
His mom has been missing him for quite awhile now and always will.

This story in the OP, brings all the pain back and the anger also.
What a sick bunch of people.

 

[tiggerfan1]

That's so awful. I feel so bad for his family. I can't believe that no one reported the suicide for so long. It makes me so angry to see that so many people tend to look the other way and not try to do something to help. I once saw on the news that a store surveillance camera showed a woman bleeding to death on a floor after having been stabbed several times. Instead of trying to help her, several people just stepped over her as she lay on the floor. Help finally came, but the lady died on the way to the hospital. The police were angry and in disbelief. They felt that she could have had a chance to live if people had called them sooner.

I have said this many times here but I have a dear friend who lost her son to suicide several years ago. He hung himself in his dorm room on Homecoming weekend.

He did not do it on webcam (that I know of) but he was on-line and visiting suicide chat rooms where the topic was discussed and people talked to him about ways to do it, what happens to the body as you do it and are dying etc. They were able to go back in his computer and see a lot of stuff and he'd been crying out for help to the wrong people. They egged him on. So sick. So tragic.
His mom has been missing him for quite awhile now and always will.

This story in the OP, brings all the pain back and the anger also.
What a sick bunch of people.

I'm so sorry to hear that your friend's son committed suicide. Your friend will definitely be in my prayers. I can't believe that there are suicide chat rooms. That is absolutely disgusting. Why are people urging others to take their own lives instead of trying to help each other find reasons to live?

 

[Sundown]

Two years I OD'd in a suicide attempt. The first person I reached out to before I did it egged me on and said he'd provide a gun for me if I really wanted to die and was cursing me and just being generally hateful. So I took the pills. Then I was afraid of dying alone so I messaged some other friends on IM and they called the police who broke my door down and got me to the hospital. So not everyone is like that, but some people are that hateful.

 

[EpcotBeauty]

In defense of the other posters on that site, the guy was mentally ill and had threatened suicide before. Maybe they thought he was just being a drama queen and had created a huge ruse. I don't know, I just can't hold them accountable for some mentally ill guy killing himself.

 

[Buckalew11]

After knowing people who have killed themselves and their families pain from it, I do not feel that way. I do not care if someone threatens it 500 times, that is one time too many and should never be ignored even if it happens over and over again or one feels it is for attention. You only get one life. One. I'll never ignore a cry for help or be too busy for someone's burting like that.

 

[JessicaR]

This complete lack of empathy for another human being shakes me to my very core. What is wrong with people? How can they live with themselves and why would they want to?

 

[kirbsam]

In defense of the other posters on that site, the guy was mentally ill and had threatened suicide before. Maybe they thought he was just being a drama queen and had created a huge ruse. I don't know, I just can't hold them accountable for some mentally ill guy killing himself.

i agree with this. i dont believe much of what i see or read online. i wasnt there, so i dont know what led up to the apathy.

 

[MsAmerica]

I am curious as to what the viewer's are feeling today with this tragedy. I hope they are all devastated by what they saw and that it changes how they react to things from now on.

However, I fear a few of the "watchers" are emailing their friends bragging that they witnessed it.....

This is such an unfortunate event, regardless of whether he was mentally ill or how many times he had cried wolf. The whole thing is just SO sad!



MsA

 

[Buckalew11]

I'm sure for some it was much like watching a movie or something. Not really thinking about it being a real person, a real death and him having a real life family who hopefully cared for him much.