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Paul Zolezzi is an aspiring model that was addicted to heroin.  He hung himself at a playground in Brooklyn after he foretold his suicide on Facebook profile.  A jogger passing by noticed Zolezzi’s body dangling from the monkey bars at the Mt. Prospect Park playground near the Brooklyn Museum around 7AM.

A few hours before that Zolezzi wrote on his Facebook profile that he was “born in San Francisco, became a shooting star over everywhere and ended his life in Brooklyn. … And couldn’t have asked for more.”

Zolezzi’s mother, Stephanie Zolezzi reported to the Daily News that her son was on a downward spiral since he had a broken engagement two years ago.

“I would say that people get so lonely, so delusional, that all they want to do is be remembered,” said Stephanie in an interview with The Daily News.  “He probably wanted to be remembered in a big way, to do it dramatically. That’s what drugs will do to people.”

Paul’s father was a schizophrenic writer who threw himself off the Golden Gate Bridge in his 40s.

Reading this article makes me question about what Facebook’s responsibility is when it comes to these kind of situations.  To me, I think that Facebook should create some sort of security force to monitor keywords such as “kill,” “die,” and “dead” and possibly notify authorities if something seems off.  It would be a lot of extra work, but it may alleviate situations like this.