Wednesday, February 28, 2018

WITNESS At Your Door (RE: Jehovah's Witnesses)

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In light of the Triple Murder Suicide, that had to do with shunning of the family by Jehovah's Witnesses. Please avoid this cult at all costs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tree Clearing in uptown White Rock surprises, many

Always grieving when mature trees are cut down. Today, my husband and daughter went to get some compost, manure and top soil from a garden center. We feared our cars would have broken shocks at the end of the day, but thankfully they made it home safe. Today, we are celebrating my now youngest's birthday; Deborah's closest in age sister Sarah. The family will be together, minus Deborah. Ohh how I miss her. I pray everyone knows how special they are and irreplaceable. You mattter to me. Please do something nice for yourself today.

City of White Rock officials say 11 mature cherry trees that were cut this week along Johnston Road were removed as part of Bosa’s Phase 2 Miramar Village project. (Tracy Holmes photo)

Tree clearing in uptown White Rock surprises, angers

Officials say city is ‘entirely’ exempt from noise bylaw that prohibits early start
White Rock residents say they were surprised and outraged to discover that trees which lined both sides of Johnston Road were cut early Sunday morning.
“Words are insufficient to express my dismay, anger, disgust, sadness and helplessness at the sight I came upon when walking down Johnston Road,” Lynda Hornby wrote to Peace Arch News that afternoon.
“At first I could not determine why, all of a sudden, I got this impression of wasteland, this eerie, deserted look on the streets and sidewalk. Then I realized that every single tree has been cut down.”
City manager Dan Bottrill told PAN the work – which city workers told PAN got underway at 4:45 a.m. Sunday – was part of the Johnston Road Gateway plan, following community consultation events in 2016.
Last April, council adopted the “hybrid” concept plan that is now being put into action, he said.
“At the end of the day, we’re going to follow the design that was approved by this community and, ultimately, council, that didn’t include these trees,” Bottrill said Monday, noting many of the trees were determined to be in poor health.
A City of White Rock statement posted online Monday afternoon states replacement trees will be planted.
Bottrill confirmed Sunday’s work was intentionally scheduled for the early morning, at a time that was determined most efficient and least disruptive.
“We had to close the entire road down, for safety’s sake,” Bottrill said. “We were trying to get the work done as quickly as we could.”
While affected businesses were advised of the work, residents were not, he said.
“We weren’t really cutting down any trees right adjacent” to residences such as Miramar Village, he said.
Advised that residents had contacted PAN with concerns about the noise disturbance, Bottrill confirmed the city is “entirely” exempt from its noise bylaw, which prohibits anything that will disturb “the quiet, peace, rest, enjoyment, comfort or convenience of individuals or the public” before 6 a.m. Monday to Saturday and before 8 a.m. on Sundays. The bylaw also prohibits work done in connection with construction, excavation, land-clearing and the like on Sundays and holidays, unless council has given written approval.
Bottrill said “typically” the bylaw would be followed, and that the city has to have good reason not to.
Miramar Village resident Stacey Wilson said she was awakened by the work at 6 a.m. Sunday. She said that while she understands why the trees had to be removed, she said the early start was disrespectful to residents.
She said she saw five large chipper trucks, other vehicles and barricades.
“The workers literally were running,” Wilson said by email. “It was something like out of the movies.”
It wasn’t the first time that the trees along Johnston Road have sparked debate.
Most recently, residents last September were upset by the removal of four liquidambar (sweetgum) trees adjacent to the underway PARC project. It was described at the time as necessary for equipment access to that site, and because “construction activity in close proximity to trees is unsafe.”

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Holiday's Jewish and Christian; Similarities? Celebrating Purim now..
the original God of the Jews, YHVH, (Yahveh) the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, is the same God which the Christians know and worship. I don't mean just the nominal only christians who may have been born into a christian family, but the real, spiritual , true believing christians who are serious about knowing God. Christianity is a spiritual walk with God, not just a list of things you are told by other humans. The point is to reconcile with God since we all have for some reason, and to varying degrees, been led astray from Him usually by the world or other people, after we are born.
Another important link between ANCIENT Judaism and Christianity, (among many links), is that the Messiah/ Redeemer was foretold and promised/ prophecied about, in the Old Testament, and Christ came as the Messiah that the prophets foretold. The Bible's New Testament is a Holy Scriptural continuation of the Old Testament, and of course there is also more that happened in continuum afterward, in the history of the people who have believed God and came to know Him as the ancient Spiritual believers, patriarchs and prophets, early and current day Christians have-- in a personal Spiritual relationship, experiencing and observing His gifts, Power and other attributes first hand.
Source(s): Partial source- The Holy Bible (Christian).

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Georgia girl's Facebook Live suicide attempt thwarted just in time


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Georgia girl’s Facebook Live suicide attempt thwarted just in time

A girl logs onto Facebook in this June 4, 2012 file photo.
A girl logs onto Facebook in this June 4, 2012 file photo.
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A 12-year-old girl was prevented from streaming her suicide on Facebook Live after police in Macon, Georgia received several calls about her plight, including one from Facebook itself, local media reported.
Sheriff’s deputies rushed to the girl’s home to find that she had swallowed some pills and placed a plastic bag over her head, Sgt. Linda Howard with the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office told CBS affiliate WMAZ TV. The girl was taken to hospital before she could hurt herself, and is now safe.
The local Board of Education was involved in tracking down her address, WMAZ TV reported.
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“It’s a good thing that the people watching this called it in,” Sheriff David Davis told the Macon Telegraph. “Those people did the right thing.”
“All social media is a conduit for attention,” he continued. “Even in this tragic situation, this young lady was looking for attention, and thankfully, the right people were watching… it could have been more tragic.”
In December, another Atlanta 12-year-old streamed her suicide online after claiming to have been sexually abused by a family member. She died before authorities learned of the video.
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“We are a voyeuristic society,” Davis said.
“It’s really troubling that you have things like this, to have access to people being able to put something up live, as it happens… we see more often that it ends in regret.”
The close call comes only two days after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media giant would hire 3,000 people to add to its 4,500-strong team dedicated to monitoring and flagging inappropriate content, including videos and livestreams showing suicide and violence.
READ MORE: Facebook hiring 3,000 workers to catch and remove streaming violence
“We’re working to make these videos easier to report so we can take the right action sooner — whether that’s responding quickly when someone needs help or taking a post down,” Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post.
He also claimed that another potential Facebook Live suicide was averted last week after the network reached out to law enforcement.
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Woman sunned by Jehovah's Witnesses kills entire family: cops

Woman shunned by Jehovah’s Witnesses kills entire family: cops

Jehovah's Winesses are part of a cult just for your info... they believe in the organization Not Jesus as their personal Saviour. 

A Michigan woman who was reportedly ostracized after she left the Jehovah’s Witnesses killed her entire family before taking her own life, police said.
Lauren Stuart, 45, fatally shot her husband and adult children in a murder-suicide last week at their Keego Harbor home, the Detroit Free Press reported.
Authorities responding to a 911 call from a concerned relative arrived at the house Friday morning to find the bodies of the woman, husband Daniel Stuart, 47; son Steven Stuart, 27; and daughter Bethany Stuart, 24.
Friends said they believe the 45-year-old mom was driven to kill after she was shunned by the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the religion she was raised practicing, according to the Detroit Free Press.
The family of four reportedly left the religion more than five years ago over “doctrinal and social issues.”
Other former Jehovah’s Witnesses told the newspaper that when people stop practicing the religion, current members — including parents — are no longer allowed to communicate with them.
Stuart’s friend, Joyce Taylor, said the couple left the Jehovah’s Witnesses, in part, because they wanted to send their kids to college — a move that is frowned upon by the religion.
“All they wanted to do was raise their family the way they wanted to,” Taylor told the Detroit Free Press.
Taylor said her friend was in “emotional distress” and “felt alone” before she allegedly gunned down her family.
“They were shunned every way possible. If Lauren went to the grocery store, they didn’t look her in the eye,” Taylor told the newspaper. “When you are raised a Jehovah’s Witness, they choose your friends. They choose who you associate with. And if you go against that, they will dis-fellowship you, or shun you.”

Boy light self on fire after dad encourages suicide: cops

Boy lights self on fire after dad encourages suicide: cops

CLAREMORE, Okla. — Authorities have arrested an Oklahoma man for allegedly giving his 12-year-old son advice on how to kill himself.
Authorities said Friday that the boy suffered minor burns after following his father’s suggestion that he light himself on fire.
Sheriff’s Maj. Coy Jenkins said 36-year-old Michael Joseph Jensen was arrested Wednesday on a child neglect warrant. He did not know whether Jensen has an attorney who could comment on the allegations.
Jenkins said the son had previously attempted suicide and was living with his grandparents when Jensen visited. Jenkins said authorities don’t believe that Jensen was serious when he told his son to set himself on fire and shoot himself in the head. But Jenkins said Jensen’s comments started the chain of events that followed.
Jenkins says the boy’s grandparents were able to put out the fire.

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For Suicide Survivors, Sharing Heals | BU Today | Boston University

Suicide... read this first

if you are thinking about
suicide... read this first
If you are feeling suicidal now, please stop long enough to read this. It will only take about five minutes. I do not want to talk you out of your bad feelings. I am not a therapist or other mental health professional - only someone who knows what it is like to be in pain.
I don't know who you are, or why you are reading this page. I only know that for the moment, you're reading it, and that is good. I can assume that you are here because you are troubled and considering ending your life. If it were possible, I would prefer to be there with you at this moment, to sit with you and talk, face to face and heart to heart. But since that is not possible, we will have to make do with this.
I have known a lot of people who have wanted to kill themselves, so I have some small idea of what you might be feeling. I know that you might not be up to reading a long book, so I am going to keep this short. While we are together here for the next five minutes, I have five simple, practical things I would like to share with you. I won't argue with you about whether you should kill yourself. But I assume that if you are thinking about it, you feel pretty bad.
Well, you're still reading, and that's very good. I'd like to ask you to stay with me for the rest of this page. I hope it means that you're at least a tiny bit unsure, somewhere deep inside, about whether or not you really will end your life. Often people feel that, even in the deepest darkness of despair. Being unsure about dying is okay and normal. The fact that you are still alive at this minute means you are still a little bit unsure. It means that even while you want to die, at the same time some part of you still wants to live. So let's hang on to that, and keep going for a few more minutes.

Start by considering this statement:
Suicide is not chosen; it happens
when pain exceeds
resources for coping with pain.
That's all it's about. You are not a bad person, or crazy, or weak, or flawed, because you feel suicidal. It doesn't even mean that you really want to die - it only means that you have more pain than you can cope with right now. If I start piling weights on your shoulders, you will eventually collapse if I add enough weights... no matter how much you want to remain standing. Willpower has nothing to do with it. Of course you would cheer yourself up, if you could.
Don't accept it if someone tells you, "That's not enough to be suicidal about." There are many kinds of pain that may lead to suicide. Whether or not the pain is bearable may differ from person to person. What might be bearable to someone else, may not be bearable to you. The point at which the pain becomes unbearable depends on what kinds of coping resources you have. Individuals vary greatly in their capacity to withstand pain.
When pain exceeds pain-coping resources, suicidal feelings are the result. Suicide is neither wrong nor right; it is not a defect of character; it is morally neutral. It is simply an imbalance of pain versus coping resources.
You can survive suicidal feelings if you do either of two things: (1) find a way to reduce your pain, or (2) find a way to increase your coping resources. Both are possible.

Now I want to tell you five things to think about.
1 You need to hear that people do get through this -- even people who feel as badly as you are feeling now. Statistically, there is a very good chance that you are going to live. I hope that this information gives you some sense of hope.
2 Give yourself some distance. Say to yourself, "I will wait 24 hours before I do anything." Or a week. Remember that feelings and actions are two different things - just because you feel like killing yourself, doesn't mean that you have to actually do it right this minute. Put some distance between your suicidal feelings and suicidal action. Even if it's just 24 hours. You have already done it for 5 minutes, just by reading this page. You can do it for another 5 minutes by continuing to read this page. Keep going, and realize that while you still feel suicidal, you are not, at this moment, acting on it. That is very encouraging to me, and I hope it is to you.
3 People often turn to suicide because they are seeking relief from pain. Remember that relief is a feeling. And you have to be alive to feel it. You will not feel the relief you so desperately seek, if you are dead.
4 Some people will react badly to your suicidal feelings, either because they are frightened, or angry; they may actually increase your pain instead of helping you, despite their intentions, by saying or doing thoughtless things. You have to understand that their bad reactions are about their fears, not about you.
But there are people out there who can be with you in this horrible time, and will not judge you, or argue with you, or send you to a hospital, or try to talk you out of how badly you feel. They will simply care for you. Find one of them. Now. Use your 24 hours, or your week, and tell someone what's going on with you. It is okay to ask for help. Try:
  • Send an anonymous e-mail to The Samaritans
  • Call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 (TTY:1-800-799-4TTY)
  • (In Australia, call Lifeline Australia at telephone: 13 11 14
  • Teenagers, call Covenant House NineLine, 1-800-999-9999
  • Look in the front of your phone book for a crisis line
  • Call a psychotherapist
  • Carefully choose a friend or a minister or rabbi, someone who is likely to listen
But don't give yourself the additional burden of trying to deal with this alone. Just talking about how you got to where you are, releases an awful lot of the pressure, and it might be just the additional coping resource you need to regain your balance.
5
Suicidal feelings are, in and of themselves, traumatic. After they subside, you need to continue caring for yourself. Therapy is a really good idea. So are the various self-help groups available both in your community and on the Internet.

Well, it's been a few minutes and you're still with me. I'm really glad.
Since you have made it this far, you deserve a reward. I think you should reward yourself by giving yourself a gift. The gift you will give yourself is a coping resource. Remember, back up near the top of the page, I said that the idea is to make sure you have more coping resources than you have pain. So let's give you another coping resource, or two, or ten...! until they outnumber your sources of pain.
Now, while this page may have given you some small relief, the best coping resource we can give you is another human being to talk with. If you find someone who wants to listen, and tell them how you are feeling and how you got to this point, you will have increased your coping resources by one. Hopefully the first person you choose won't be the last. There are a lot of people out there who really want to hear from you. It's time to start looking around for one of them.
Now: I'd like you to call someone.
And while you're at it, you can still stay with me for a bit. Check out these sources of online help.
Additional things to read at this site:
  • How serious is our condition? ..."He only took 15 pills, he wasn't really serious..." if others are making you feel like you're just trying to get attention... read this.
  • Why is it so hard for us to recover from being suicidal? ...while most suicidal people recover and go on, others struggle with suicidal thoughts and feelings for months or even years. Suicide and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
  • Recovery from grief and loss ...has anyone significant in your life recently died? You would be in good company... many suicidal people have recently suffered a loss.
  • The stigma of suicide that prevents suicidal people from recovering: we are not only fighting our own pain, but the pain that others inflict on us... and that we ourselves add to. Stigma is a huge complicating factor in suicidal feelings.
  • Resources about depression ...if you are suicidal, you are most likely experiencing some form of depression. This is good news, because depression can be treated, helping you feel better.
  • A 4 minute depression quiz ...maybe you have depression and want to find out right now, scientifically, at no cost.
  • Symptoms of depression ...the specific symptoms of a full blown episode of clinical depression
Do you know someone who is suicidal... or would you like to be able to help, if the situation arises? Learn what to do, so that you can make the situation better, not worse.
Other online sources of help:
  • The Samaritans - trained volunteers are available 24 hours a day to listen and provide emotional support. You can call a volunteer on the phone, or e-mail them. Confidential and non-judgmental. Short of writing to a psychotherapist, the best source of online help.
  • Talk to a therapist online - Read this page to find out how.
  • Depression support group online: Psych Central Depression Support Group - Please note: this is a very big group, but amidst all the chatter, it is possible to find someone who will hear you and offer support.
  • Psych Central has a good listing of online resources for suicide - and other mental health needs.
  • Still feel bad? These jokes might relieve the pressure for a minute or two.
  • If you want help finding a human being to talk with in person, who can help you live through this, try reading this article about how to Choose a Competent Counselor.

Sometimes people need additional private help before they are ready to talk with someone in person. Here are a few books you could read on your own in private. I know from personal experience that each one has helped someone like you.
  • Suicide: The Forever Decision by Paul G. Quinnett, PhD (Continuum, ISBN 0-8264-0391-3). Frank and helpful conversation with a therapist who cares.
  • Choosing to Live: how to defeat suicide through cognitive therapy by Thomas E. Ellis PsyD and Cory F. Newman PhD (New Harbinger Publications, ISBN 1-57224-056-3). Another conversational book with practical help for suicidal persons.
  • How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me: One Person's Guide to Suicide Prevention by Susan Rose Blauner (William Morrow, ISBN 0066211212). A very practical survival guide by an actual survivor.
  • Out of the Nightmare: Recovery From Depression And Suicidal Pain, by David L. Conroy, PhD (Authors Choice Press, ISBN 0595414974). As if suicidal persons weren't feeling bad enough already, our thoughtless attitudes can cause them to feel guilt and shame, and keep them from getting help in time. Dr. Conroy blasts apart the myths of suicide, and looks at suicidal feelings from the inside, in a down to earth, non-judgmental way. This is a book that will save lives by washing away the stigma of suicide and opening the door to a real way out of the nightmare.

Suicide: The Forever Decision, Paul G. Quinnett, PhD Choosing to Live, Thomas E. Ellis PsyD How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me Out of the Nightmare, David L. Conroy, PhD


  • I make no money whatsoever on recommending these books... they are simply recommendations.


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What does it take to not be invited to dinner with Trudeau?Scroll down please

Rex Murphy: What does it take to not be invited to dinner with Trudeau?

Diplomatically speaking, the Atwal incident was like coming off the ski jump, head down, without a helmet, and meeting the ski lift coming up

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“Consider the lilies of the field … they toil not, neither do they spin: yet I say unto you, that even Justin on the India trip (and he had top designers) was not arrayed like one of these.”  St. Matthew of Dior
Everyone agrees our prime minister is both elegant and stylish. How well he looks and dresses is the prime well of his confidence. But this week’s Passage Through India was a struggle between self-parody and narcissism in which, alas, both sides won. Mr. Trudeau showed up in India with more costumes than a Vegas chorus line on a 50-state tour.
From the Taj Mahal to the Golden Temple, in the foreground of the splendours of Indian architecture and belief, Justin and Sophie offered a pose in every conceivable Indian fashion but (thank Shiva) the dhoti. Judging from the PM’s apparel the point of this Canadian trade mission was to bring India to India. An uncomfortable redundancy one might assume. But perhaps not incidentally a wonderful opportunity to harvest a propaganda stockpile for future Diversity is Our Strength Liberal campaigns among the diaspora: a Niagara of selfies, instagrams by the bushel, glossies for posters yet to come, and film for Imax rallies yet to be called.
Dull old Stephen Harper used to just visit countries; Justin Trudeau goes abroad to wear them
Hence the fashion show. Dull old Stephen Harper used to just visit countries;  Justin Trudeau goes abroad to wear them.
Now wearing a costume of the country just once or twice might be seen as a laudable sprinkling of style and cultural awareness. But two or three “Indian” costumes a day, from head to toe all glitter, crimson and gold, was ladling out the multicultural sugar by the vat load. Vanity Fair (naturally) offered the details of one stop that gives a taste of the full immersion: “Trudeau’s wife, Sophie, wore a cream sari, his daughter, Ella-Grace, wore a lehenga choli, his sons, Xavier and Hadrien, wore a pyjama kurta set, and Trudeau himself wore an elaborate sherwani.”
On a trade mission nothing, just nothing says “Buy Canadian” like your elaborate sherwani and a cool lehenga choli. They’re on discount at Winners stores from Port Hawkesbury to Kamloops.
On a trade mission nothing, just nothing says 'Buy Canadian' like your elaborate sherwani
Mr. Trudeau varied his image with the dexterity of a chameleon in a paint factory gifted with the taste of a peacock. Even so, it should be fair to wonder if it is wise for a prime ministerial visit to open itself up to being confused with a badly mistaken remake of The King and I.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, was photographed with convicted would-be assassin Jaspal Singh Atwal at a function in India on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2018. Postmedia News
There were, thankfully, other matters. I am not a master of protocol but I do know a person who is on all aspects from dress to security (he managed the visit to Newfoundland by Diana, Princess of Wales).  I sought him out for his wisdom. On security he told me the rules were few but urgent. Top of the list was “keep invitations to noted assassins at a minimum.” The guiding principle here was the fewer assassins, would-be or otherwise, the better. None was regarded as optimum.
Thus it was quite the shock late in the week when one Jaspal Atwal was found on the guest list for the prime minister’s dinner at the Canadian High Commission. Mr. Atwal has a demonstrated eagerness for thuggery and (attempted) assassination, and the criminal record to prove it.
He is an energetic sort. In 1985 he attacked the splendid and courageous Ujjal Dosanjh, beating him with an iron bar. Mr. Dosanjh, brave man that he is, had spoken out against Sikh extremists and earned for his efforts 88 stitches to his head, besides other injuries. In 1986, Atwal abandoned the iron bar and went, with three of his friends, for an upgrade to the gun.
What does it take NOT to get invited to the prime minister’s dinner table on a trip to India?
Atwal shot and wounded an Indian cabinet minister on Vancouver Island when the minister was visiting Canada for a wedding — a full but failed assassination attempt for which he was convicted of attempted murder. There’s more on the rap sheet but just this should raise the question — what does it take NOT to get invited to the prime minister’s dinner table on a trip to India? Most would question allowing him to go to Swiss Chalet for takeout.
Yet there was Atwal, despite his infamy, his assault and attempted murder, on the guest list for the big dinner at the High Commission; almost literally a spike in the punch of the entire visit.
Yes, there indeed he was, Atwal the failed assassin, showing up in photos with a handful of cabinet ministers, the wife of the prime minister, and in other pictures, preceding the visit, with all sorts of Liberal grandees and fundraisers.
It crushed the coverage of the catwalk portion of the tour. Now the news was a tad more sombre. The scandal broke the very day after Mr. Trudeau had, finally, made explicit Canada’s determination to dissociate from all efforts and spokespersons for Indian separatism, and the violent behaviour that movement has spawned and embraced. Diplomatically speaking, the Atwal incident was comparable to coming off the ski jump ramp, head downwards, without a helmet, and meeting the roof of the ski lift coming up. A week then, that began as some hybrid of Halloween in Bollywood ended up with dangerous embarrassment.
All in all it will be hard to flute this protracted trip with its bloated entourage, cultural cross-dressing and empty agenda as anything by a dimwitted and sloppy failure.

Sunday, February 25, 2018

GRASP SUPPORT


Langley resident Heather Mullan holds a photo of her daughter Amelia, who died of a drug overdose. Mullan has launched a new support group for parents of overdose victims. Dan Ferguson Langley Times

Langley mom launches support group for parents of overdose victims

There is a lack of long-term resources for grieving parents
It was 10 months before Langley resident Heather Mullan could bring herself to put up a picture of her daughter Amelia.
When she did, the photo she chose was a happy one of Amelia, who died from a drug overdose at 35.
It shows a contented-looking woman posing in front of 20 Mile Creek near Hedley.
At the time, Amelia was in a positive relationship and working hard to stay clean after years of addiction.
The photo was taken about two years ago.
Just over a year later, in March 2017, Amelia had a slip, took some heroin laced with fentanyl, and died.
She was one of more than 1,400 people who died from an illicit drug overdose in B.C. last year.
READ MORE: More than 1,400 people in B.C. died of drug overdoses in 2017
About 81 per cent of the deaths were the result of combining drugs like heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine with fentanyl, a painkiller that is 100 times more toxic than morphine and can be fatal in even small amounts.
The public health crisis has meant an increasing number of parents, like Mullan, are left to mourn their children.
“It’s horrendous and lonely,” Mullan said.
And it can be especially hard when someone is lost to drugs.
“A loss through substance abuse has a real stigma to it,” Mullan said.
She held her hands out as if to hold someone close.
“When you care for them (an addict) you hold them here,” she said.
Then she opened her arms wide.
“When they pass, “here” is empty.
Mullan paused a second to collect herself.
“I said I wasn’t going to cry,” she said, then reached for a tissue.
There was short-term assistance available for grieving parents of overdose victims, including a six-week program offered by a local funeral home, but there was nothing ongoing for parents struggling with the unimaginable, Mullan discovered.
“There was no support,” Mullan said.
So she started looking for something long-term.
Her search led her to GRASP (Grief Recovery After Substance Passing), a support group for parents and loved ones who have had family members and friends who have died as a result of drug misuse, overdose or addiction.
The group was started in the U.S. by a couple whose 20-year-old daughter died from a drug overdose in 1994.
They launched an awareness program that evolved into a peer-to-peer support network with more than 100 chapters in the U.S. and Canada.
There are GRASP chapters in B.C., in Victoria and Kelowna.
To become a qualified peer leader of a GRASP group, like Mullan, it has to have been a year since the loved one has passed away.
The first local GRASP meeting organized by Mullan will be held on Thursday, March 1 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in room 206 of the Cloverdale Recreation Centre at 6188 176 St., which has donated space.
For more information, email grasplangleysurreyfraservalley@gmail.com or phone 604-616-4800.
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