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Suicide Online

By The Daily Dish

Nov 22 2008, 4:45 AM ET

A disturbing new media first:

About 185 people were viewing the feed on the San Francisco-based live-streaming service. The teen had announced his pending suicide on a bodybuilding.com chat forum, which linked to the broadcast. He left an online suicide note. Viewers were seen egging him on. The chat's moderator called the authorities, Baker said, and police broke into the residence.

And they goaded him as a "faggot."



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