The Internet Reveals Just How Ugly Our World Can Be
Posted: Saturday, November 22, 2008
by Roschelle Nelson
The power of the internet is remarkable. Webcams, chatrooms, blogging platforms, search engines and many other features have created a portal that brings the world right into your living room, bedroom or where ever your home computing device is set up. What's sad is how desensitized our world has become. To think that people egged on a Florida teenager as he took his own life live on a webcam is deplorable. Online viewers reportedly said things like "go ahead and do it, faggot"..."OMFG"...and..."LOL".
Biggs, who had reportedly been discussing his suicide online, also posted a suicide note on a body-building forum, which has since been taken down, in which he wrote, "I hate myself and I hate living."
Battling depression and other mental illnesses can be difficult to understand. Many people who've never dealt with these issues on a personal level or in a health care setting don't really understand why sufferers can't just "snap out of it".
We'll never know what Abraham's outcome might have been if maybe one of the thousands viewing had just attempted to convince him to re-think his decision and seek professional help.
If just one person had told him his life was worth so much more than his current state of mind. No - instead this lonely lost soul died while onlookers urged him to hurry it up and berated him with words that only further validated his sense of worthliness; words like loser, coward, and faggot.
Human apathy is more deadly than any weapon I know.
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Top-level comments on this article: (3 total)Hi Roschelle.I don't look at webcams, though my husband does. Mostly he just wants to know what Moscow looks like or the place where he grew up. I was not aware that this sort of thing goes on. How sad it all is. That people would do that is incomprehensible to me. Egging someone on like that is deplorable, selfish, hard-hearted and totally lacking in compassion and a spirit to give aid where aid is needed. There is enough pain in the world without willfully increasing it.I hope that all of those that most likely thought it was funny are now suffering remorse at the aid they gave in the snuffing out of a life. They should know that people are not always "just kidding" when they say they want to kill themselves; that they are not just doing it to get attention. Aargh!This is a well written article and a worthy topic.I'm done now.DiannePlease log in to respond to this comment.
Roschelle,
I almost wrote about this when I read the news report online. I've taken a class at the Community College where the victim was a student. It's extremely sad what this generation and others are privy to and not many are emotionally affected by it, it seems. They didn't see the horror of what they were witnessing and that it was evilness that permitted them to watch and do nothing. A few did, but even that was too late.
I'm happy you wrote, and very-well, to this horrific incidence. Sadly to the spectators, it was just another event.
Blessings,
AvisPlease log in to respond to this comment.
Roschele,How pathetic that people are so insensitive. How many times after killings, rapes and suicides have I heard from those who knew the victims exclaim, " they were such wonderfully, amazingly put together individuals - I just can't understand why it happened?" Duh, wake up people, stop the denial and read the signs. Thanks for once again reminding me how crazy this world can be.Please log in to respond to this comment.
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