19 year old commits suicide live on bodybuilding.com

It's really sad that people egg someone who needs emotional help. It's no surprise that people who are into body building might have issues with self-esteem but suicide is too far.
 
I can understand that he had a reputation with other regulars on that forum for doing similar stuff so they're bound to have egged him on initially, but I can't really get my head around why people were in the chat on his webcam channel cracking jokes and laughing about it long after he had stopped breathing.
 
Nullvoid said:
I can understand that he had a reputation with other regulars on that forum for doing similar stuff so they're bound to have egged him on initially, but I can't really get my head around why people were in the chat on his webcam channel cracking jokes and laughing about it long after he had stopped breathing.
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Because by that time it was flooded with the degenerates from 4chan.
 
How true is it to say that anybody unstable enough to be able to be egged on into suicide would have done it themselves at some point anyway?
 
Nullvoid said:
I can understand that he had a reputation with other regulars on that forum for doing similar stuff so they're bound to have egged him on initially, but I can't really get my head around why people were in the chat on his webcam channel cracking jokes and laughing about it long after he had stopped breathing.
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That in particular is just.....wow.
 
I would guess that those people who frequent the bb forum have some sort of mild mental imbalance. Combine that with the anonymity offered by the internet and we get to know what people are really like.

edit: is bodybuilding.com up atm ?
 
[TW]Fox;12936468 said:
How true is it to say that anybody unstable enough to be able to be egged on into suicide would have done it themselves at some point anyway?
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I would say that if you have an option between egging somebody on or trying to discourage them you ought to try to discourage them. Yes, if left to his own devices (neither egged on nor discouraged) he may have done it eventually. However, if enough people tried to convince him otherwise there would be a far greater chance of him not commiting suicide.

If somebody has a 75% chance of dying and, with little cost to yourself, you could cut that to a 25% chance, then that is worth doing, whether or not he does actually end up dying. This is no different.
 
I use to go on the forum and its a mind field of freaks and obssed yanks, very scary place to post.

Seems the forums are down and wondering if the owner thinks he has blood on his hands. I know I would.
 
[TW]Fox;12936504 said:
How can you tell if somebody is breathing or asleep from a webcam?
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when the body and the creases in the clothes change or move...anyway I think what your asking is how you can see it from a "webcam", many HD podcasts are produced using webcams..depends on which one you have.
 
manic111 said:
I would say that if you have an option between egging somebody on or trying to discourage them you ought to try to discourage them. Yes, if left to his own devices (neither egged on nor discouraged) he may have done it eventually. However, if enough people tried to convince him otherwise there would be a far greater chance of him not commiting suicide.

If somebody has a 75% chance of dying and, with little cost to yourself, you could cut that to a 25% chance, then that is worth doing, whether or not he does actually end up dying. This is no different.
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Not only that, but the impliction there is that someone is always going to be unstable no matter what throughout the rest of their lives. With a little kindness he may have regained his emotional stability and never gotten so low as to contemplate suicide ever again.
 
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