Eva Holland has shared a photo with her kids, Lucas and Ava, standing next to Mike Settles who was in an open casket at his funeral last week. But something is really creepy about this photo – why the whole family is smiling while they are expected to be grieving?
Eva Holland has shared a photo with her kids, Lucas and Ava, standing next to Mike Settles
Later the woman, from Ohio, United States, explained her desicion to publish the images on social media because she wanted to show the impact of heroin abuse and warn others about the dangers of drug addiction.
At her her Facebook and Instagram pages she wrote: “I’m sure this photo makes a lot of people uncomfortable it may even p–s a few people off but the main reason I took it was to show the reality of addiction.
If you don’t choose recovery every single day this will be your only way out. No parent should have to bury their child and no child as young as ours should have to bury their parent.
This was preventable it didn’t have to happen but one wrong choice destroyed his family. I know a lot of people may be upset I’m putting it out in the open like this, but hiding the facts is only going to keep this epidemic going.
The cold hard truth is heroin kills. You may think it will never happen to you but guess what that’s what Mike thought too. We were together 11 years. I was there before it all started.
I knew what he wanted out of this life, all his hopes and dreams. He never would’ve imagined his life would turn out this way. He was once so happy and full of life.
He was a great son, brother, friend but most importantly, he was a great dad. He loved those kids more than anything. But as we all know sometimes life gets tough and we make some wrong choices.
His addiction started off with pain pills then inevitably heroin.He loved us all so much he decided enough was enough and went to rehab at the end of last year.
He got out right before Christmas as a brand new man. He had found his purpose for living again, he found his gorgeous smile again, he became the man, the son, the brother, the dad that we all needed him to be again.
He did so good for so long but then a couple months ago it started with a single pill for a ‘toothache’ which inevitably led him back down the road of addiction instead of staying (on) the course of recovery. He said he could handle it, that he could stop on his own and didn’t need to get help again.
Watch out #projectLETGOafrica
Well, he was wrong. Last Wednesday he took his last breath. My kids’ father, the man I loved since I was a kid, a great son and a great person lost his battle. I just needed to share his story in case it can help anyone else.”
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