Suicidal Bronx woman saved by NYDailyNews.com comment boardBY Veronika Belenkaya and Larry Mcshane
It was just two weeks ago that Suena Williams was finalizing her suicide plans: A fistful of sleeping pills, a bottle of rum, a note already written.
Out of work and overwhelmed, the Bronx woman looked forward to death. And then, amid the anonymity of cyberspace, she found an angel: an Illinois woman who saved her life.
"You live with the pain every day, feeling so alone, so isolated," Williams said Saturday, alive and upbeat in her neat-as-a-pin Riverdale apartment. "I never expected a perfect stranger to help."
Williams found Linda Lawson, 44, of East St. Louis, Ill., on the Daily News Web site on Feb. 20. Both were reading about an aspiring male model who committed suicide at a Brooklyn park after posting a note on Facebook.
Out of work and overwhelmed, the Bronx woman looked forward to death. And then, amid the anonymity of cyberspace, she found an angel: an Illinois woman who saved her life.
"You live with the pain every day, feeling so alone, so isolated," Williams said Saturday, alive and upbeat in her neat-as-a-pin Riverdale apartment. "I never expected a perfect stranger to help."
Williams found Linda Lawson, 44, of East St. Louis, Ill., on the Daily News Web site on Feb. 20. Both were reading about an aspiring male model who committed suicide at a Brooklyn park after posting a note on Facebook.
Williams, 43, posted on a readers' message board about the cavalcade of woe that had buried her: No job prospects. A year's worth of unpaid rent. Feelings of depression laced with desperation.Lawson (Left) recognized herself in those words. A suicide attempt survivor herself, she posted her e-mail address and asked Williams to reach out.
"When I saw her comments, I distinctly knew she was going to be out of here in about two days," Lawson recalled. "It was just a desperate move: 'Here is my e-mail, don't give up.'"
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