What I Wish People Knew About Reporting Suicidal Friends on Facebook

With no one to turn to, I turned to Facebook — and ended up with a cop on my doorstep

Shannon Ashley
Human Parts
Published in
8 min readNov 19, 2019

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InIn the winter of 2013, I found myself spending a month on a leaky air mattress. I was staying at the home of my ex-fiancé’s Facebook friend, in Iowa. She’d generously welcomed me after my ex kicked me out of…

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Shannon Ashley
Human Parts

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