Teen Commits Suicide On Webcam As Others Watch
 

:(

That he did so is very sad. That...

...is just horrible. WTF IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?

I give up trying to figure that out. I mean for crying out loud, egging someone on so you can get off watching someone die? I hope when it's their time to go they enjoy it just as much......

The best case scenario is that everyone watching/egging on is so jaded that they simply didn't believe it was real, which is pretty sh*tty best case scenario. And sadly, unlikely to be true.

But when they track them down, that is what they will all claim.

Not that this makes anything better, but apparently the same kid had threatened suicide before and, obviously, not followed through.

Well, it's not clear if the people commenting actually knew the guy - If I chanced upon this site, I probably would have been one of the one's encouraging him to do something more definitive and dramatic, like hanging - as being on the internet, I would have fully expected it to be a hoax. I probably would have clicked through after a few moments being bored by the lack of motion from the alleged body in bed -
I would have at least expected some violent wretchings.

While this event is horrible in retrospect, I would have probably thought it was a hoax at the time. Sadly, I've had enough exposure to sympathy trolls and other tricksters via the internet to have a tendency to roll my eyes at this sort of thing.

But would you have encouraged him instead of navigating away?