Friday, Florida authorities reported that a 19-year-old boy had committed suicide by drug overdose in front of a live streaming camera. Moreover, they added that some of the people who were viewing the live video on the Internet had even encouraged him to kill himself.

Abraham Biggs Jr.’s body was found Wednesday in the bedroom of his home in Pembroke Pines, Florida, the autopsy having showed that the cause of death had been a toxic combination of opiates and benzodiazepine, which is a drug given to people suffering from anxiety and insomnia, the Broward County Medical Examiner's Office informed.

Dr. Steve Cina, deputy chief medical examiner of Broward County, stated that the police had ruled the boy’s death as suicide.

Police officials are now investigating the case, but they refused to give out any further details on the matter.

Cina also reported that Abraham Biggs Jr. had written some blogs revealing his intentions to commit suicide, while a suicide note released by Miami television station WPLG on their website read „I hate myself and I hate living.”

In addition, it read that Biggs had often considered killing himself in the past.

During the time the video was streaming live on the Internet, some viewers called the police, but when the latter arrived at the scene, Biggs had already killed himself. This moment was also caught on the webcam.

The teenager, who was enrolled at Broward College, suffered from a condition called bipolar disorder, his family stated. Bipolar disorder entails a string of mood disorders that fall into the category of manic episodes or hypomanic ones (milder mania). Furthermore, these alternate with depressive episodes, which in extreme cases can lead to psychotic symptoms such as delusions and hallucination.

Biggs posted the streaming video on the bodybuilding.com website, under the „CandyJunkie” screen name, where he also posted a link to Justin.tv, a site where people can broadcast live webcam videos. On this latter website, his alias was „feels_like_ecstacy.”

Biggs’ family was appalled to learn that within the twelve hours the boy streamed pictures from his home on the website, nobody bothered to inform the authorities, not to mention that some even egged him on, urging him to take the drug overdose.

Justin.tv CEO Michael Seibel refused to give out information concerning the number of people who were watching the video at that time.

This is not the first incident of the like, nevertheless.

Last year, a man from Britain hanged himself while he was streaming his suicide on the Internet.

Kevin Whitrick, 42, from Telford, Shropshire, killed himself online, with approximately 100 internet chatroom users watching him hang himself.

The man, father of 12-year-old twins, who used the online name Shyguy_17_1, worked for an electrical company in Shrewsbury and was divorced from his wife Paula.

As he prepared to hang himself, some chatroom users kept insulting him and telling to get on with it, thinking he was not actually going to commit suicide.