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Facebook Suicide Note Was One of Many Dreary 'Updates'
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Billy Parker
Published Feb 21, 2009
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The Facebook page that Paul Zolezzi used to leave a suicide note via status update before hanging himself at Mount Prospect Park yesterday has been taken down. Zolezzi, who struggled with heroin addiction, had been leaving several cryptic statuses recently during his move back to New York, following an unhappy stay in Portland, OR. One read, "Paul is going to be the first person ever to hang himself on the way out of Portland! Everything here sucks!" After his final update the night before his death, a friend replied, "Are you dying? or just staying brooklyn? I hope it's the latter." Zolezzi's father committed suicide when he was 8-years-old by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. A friend told the Post, "He didn't have the best start, and he really wanted more than anything to overcome all of that and to not be buried by issues of his childhood. But no matter how hard he tried to escape that, he suffered."
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