TORONTO – Hoping to save another addict’s life, a U.S. family penned a brutally honest obituary for their 24-year-old daughter who died of a heroin overdose.
Molly Parks was found dead last week in Manchester, New Hampshire. Coming to terms with her death, Parks’ family wrote the obit hoping to inspire other addicts to seek help.
“Along Molly’s journey through life, she made a lot of bad decisions including experimenting with drugs,” the obituary reads. “She fought her addiction to heroin for at least five years and had experienced a near fatal overdose before.”
Despite the obituary being harsh, the family remembered their loving daughter for her “fearless personality and her trademark red lipstick.”
According to the obit, Parks enrolled in a community college but dropped out after one year when “her addiction took over.”
“Molly’s family truly loved her and tried to be as supportive as possible as she struggled with the heroin epidemic that has been so destructive to individuals and families in her age bracket,” the family wrote.
The day after Parks’ death, her father took to Facebook to encourage other addicts to seek help and for families of addicts to be supportive during the process.
“If you have a friend or a relative who is fighting the fight against addiction please do everything you can to be supportive. Maybe for your loved one it’ll help,” Tom Parks wrote. “Sadly for ours it didn’t. I hope my daughter can now find the peace that she looked for here on earth.”
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