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TIL that in 2003 Brandon Vedas live-streamed his own drug overdose & death while people told him to take more on IRC chatroom. One of his last sentences, as he took more, going unconscious and dying, was: "I told u I was hardcore". His mother was in the next room, thinking he was asleep.

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