Originally Posted by The Technician, North Carolina State University's newspaper

Police in the town of Carolina Beach found the body of an N.C. State student Sunday afternoon, according to police Detective Rollin Stone.

Frank Chen, a senior in biomedical engineering, allegedly shot himself, according to Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Tom Stafford.

Chen wrote what appeared to be a suicide note in his LiveJournal page at 1 p.m. Sunday. Friends said they found out he was missing around that time.

"The past 14 months have been a more or less continuous withering away of my connections to my own life," the LiveJournal entry said. "At this point, I'm not sure of my own sanity anymore ... I don't feel like I'd be particularly missed, and I don't feel like anything in particular matters anyway. I'm replaceable."