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[KingstonsMom]

The family of a New Jersey mother-of-two who died last month is furious Facebook did not remove a disturbing photo she posted moments before she took her own life.

Pamela Bryce-Elarabi died on June 23 at a New Jersey hospital, hours after she posted a graphic image to her Facebook page of herself preparing to commit suicide.

According to Market Watch, the picture was so upsetting that her sister Gillian Luchejko called their brother and asked him to go by Elarabi’s New Jersey home to check on her.

By the time the brother arrived, friends who saw Elarabi’s post had already sent police and paramedics to her Hillsborough home.

Elarabi, who was a yoga instructor, was rushed to the hospital but died after her family made the difficult decision to remove life support. Several of her friends wrote in the comments section of her posts that the 49-year-old had reportedly hung herself.

Luchejko told Market Watch that as her and family stood by Elarabi’s side at the hospital, they were bombarded with messages from concerned friends who saw the image Elarabi had posted.

‘People kept texting us, asking what was going on, and what the Facebook post was about, and I was thinking, “I can’t answer you right now because she is dying,’” Luchejko said. ‘Everyone felt helpless’.

The family said they contacted Facebook about the image and more than 200 of Elarabi's friends reported it to administrators, but the company did not take it down.

It remained at the top of Elarabi’s page for three days after her death until her 26-year-old daughter found her mom's password and deleted the post herself.

‘It was very traumatic for her. Her children are now traumatized because this is the last image they saw of their mom – they can’t remember her the way she was,' she told the outlet.

More of the story here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5952257/Family-says-Facebook-failed-remove-disturbing-photo-...

[happycat]

Very sad indeed that her daughter had to delete that post.

[millieshops]

@KingstonsMomI hope as the family directs their anger to Facebook, that helps them deal with the anger at people actually in their lives. 

[hopi]

People are constantly appalled at Facebook's antics and policies yet no one quits the site.  So all the shaming goes to waste.

[Mistreatedbycs]

That doesn't surprise me one bit.

Have you ever tried to "contact" FB, good luck.   

There is no response and for an entire "palace" of employees, no one can help and no one answers.  

I still can't believe people are still "duped" by FB, all they are doing is selling your information to advertisers but I guess at the cost of you are using their product for free.

[goldensrbest]

My question is ,why did she put it on facebook? To have someone stop her ,or to have people that cared for her ,have guilt?

[Nataliesgramma]

Doesn't surprise me...

[Equuleus]

Why is it FB's fault?

[KingstonsMom]

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@Mistreatedbycs wrote:

That doesn't surprise me one bit.

Have you ever tried to "contact" FB, good luck.   

There is no response and for an entire "palace" of employees, no one can help and no one answers.  

I still can't believe people are still "duped" by FB, all they are doing is selling your information to advertisers but I guess at the cost of you are using their product for free.

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@Mistreatedbycs

That's exactly why I'm not on FB.

[KingstonsMom]

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@Equuleus wrote:

Why is it FB's fault?

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@Equuleus

Seriously??

FB's fault is in not removing the suicide post after the family and 200 other users alerted them to it.

Finally, the FAMILY had to hack her FB account to remove the post, which her family, friends and CHILDREN saw of her preparing to hang herself, which she did.

An image I'm sure (and they say) that they'll never forget.

SMH.....in shame.