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A woman from Taiwan gave a running commentary of her suicide on Facebook, but none of her 'friends' intervened or called for help.

The Daily Mail reports that Claire Lin, 31, described her gradual asphyxiation to nine friends as she died after inhaling poisonous fumes.

Police officer Hsieh Ku-ming from Taipei said that Miss Lin took her own life on her birthday, March 18. Family members reported her suicide on the morning after her death, but were unaware that she had been online at the time.

One picture posted from her mobile phone shows a charcoal barbecue burning next to two stuffed animals. Another shows the room filled with fumes.

One friend, identified as Chung Hsin, told her: "Be calm, open the window, put out the charcoal fire, please, I beg you."

Miss Lin replied: "The fumes are suffocating. They fill my eyes with tears, Don't write me any more."

Her last words, written in Chinese, were: "Too late. My room is filled with fumes. I just posted another pictures. Even while I'm dying, I still want FB [Facebook]. Must be FB poison. Haha."

Her earlier messages indicated that she was unhappy because her boyfriend was ignoring her and had failed to return home to spend time with her on her birthday.

He found her body the following morning.

Officer Hsieh Ku-ming said that he regretted that none of Miss Lin's friends had called the police during the time that she was online.

He said: "It could be true that it would be hard to track down a Facebook friend without her address or phone contact."

Chai Ben-rei, a sociologist at Taiwan's Feng Chia University, said: "People may have doubts about what they see on the internet because of its virtual nature, and fail to take action on it."