Aletha Meyer Pinnow was just 31 when she suicided.
To family and friends she was a “caring, genuine, vivacious, hilarious, and sparkly” young woman. Devastatingly, the positivity she exuded to others was invisible to herself, and on the 20th of February she took her own life.
Out of their pain and loss, her family has chosen not to turn a blind-eye to the disease which claimed their Aletha, but to cast light on the darkness of mental illness. Her obituary, penned by adoring sister Eleni and published in the Duluth News Tribune, reflects just that.