Various 4chan users claimed Higgs had taken his own life, but there was no official confirmation of his death the name he used may have been a pseudonym, or the account could have been fabricated. Goodby.'ĭavid Higgs never posted on the forum again.
He ended his post with the message 'i love you guys i realy do i was scard of dying alone but i, not alon n thank you for that I am gonna go lie don because i realy dont fell well. He wrote of their relationship's inception, its eventual downfall and how he had taken a bottle of pills while writing the story. Less than a year after Watts' suicide, a man calling himself David Higgs took to 4chan to document the story of falling in love with a woman named Julie.