The body of 29-year-old Nordia Markland was found hanging from a beam at her
The family of the deceased are traumatized by the fact that a video showing miss Markland’s body dangling from the beam has been doing the rounds on social media.
They are also upset that people who have seen the video has characterized her as wicked and has created their own narrative as to the reason she allegedly took her own life.
Distraught relatives say miss Markland was depressed after the death of her father, she had to bury a cousin shortly after.
We have the video but have opted not to post it out of deference and respect to her and her family.
Mental illness and depression are real issues which affect untold numbers of people, many of whom suffer in silence.
The grief and deep depression which would cause someone to see no way out forcing them to ultimately take their own life cannot be reduced to someone’s opinion of the deceased.
It must be understood against the precious nature of life and the sheer hopelessness which the victim must have felt which caused him/her to end that one precious life.