I questioned over and over, how could a beautiful 23-year-old woman with so much happening give up on life? It played on my mind ever since viewing a Facebook video of that beautiful, seemingly vibrant, young woman.
It didn’t matter to me that she was not Guyanese and that she died in another country. What mattered was that another young person felt that her only option was to take her life and I wondered how humans can continue to fail humans to this extent. Her name was Ashley Mayers. She was 23. She was the owner of Alexsandra Pile Products, a natural skincare and herbal hair company. She was Barbadian.