This is what our society has become

A mentally ill teenager ingested a cocktail of pills, trained the webcam on himself, laid down on the bed and died while people blogged on. They knew what he was doing - he had posted a very clear suicide note. "Oh, that's not enough to kill you." "Go ahead and do it." It took ten hours before: "He's not moving" "He's not breathing" and then a human being with a conscience notified the site. The site: "we regret that this has occurred and want to respect the privacy of the broadcaster and his family during this time."

We regret.

And the human beings who watched?

His father: "He was a good son. I'm sorry that no one could help him when I was not around to help him myself. I wish they would have given him the assistance that he was crying out for. They did not respond to him. They only did long after the fact....You don't assume [it's a hoax]. You have to find out if it was true or false."

Does someone who posts a fresh suicide note having had made threats in the past sleep ten hours without moving?

Source: CNN RICH PHILLIPS, KUM SEGAL, JOHN ZARRELLA.